Stryker’s Exeter Hip System Celebrates One-Millionth Hip Stem

Stryker Corp.’s orthopedics division has announced the manufacturing of its one-millionth Exeter hip stem, an implant developed in collaboration with an orthopedic surgeon and engineer to address the problem of aseptic loosening 40 years ago, according to a Stryker news release.

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Developed in 1970, by a professor and physician from the University of Exeter, United Kingdom, the Exeter hip stem was the first ever collarless, polished and tapered stem, a design which helped to significantly reduce implant loosening and the rate of revision surgery, according to the release.

In 1988, the Exeter hip again revolutionized hip replacement surgery when Stryker supplemented its design with femoral heads of different lengths and sizes, enabling surgeons to better recreate patients’ unique anatomy, according to the release.

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