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Accolade II

Designed to fit more patients, designed to fit your approach

Accolade II’s Morphometric Wedge is designed to address modern demands with technology by evolving conventional tapered wedge femoral stem design with size specific medial curvature to more closely fit a broad range of bone sizes and shapes of today’s patient population.1

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Accolade II | Stryker

SOMA

Stryker Orthopaedic Modeling and Analytics (SOMA)

Stryker Orthopaedic Modeling and Analytics, or SOMA, is a system that enables population-based design and has powerful functionality with which to design, model and analyze novel orthopaedic devices. Stryker utilized SOMA technology to design a stem building upon the conventional tapered wedge femoral design, incorporating features to allow for an enhanced implant fit in today’s patient population.2

By establishing an increased canal fit and fill2, Accolade II has been shown to allow for enhanced stability2, decreased intraoperative femoral fractures3, as well as excellent survivorship and functional outcomes4,5, which has been shown to lead to satisfied patients.5 An illustrated look at the process by which SOMA technology is employed in implant design is described below.

 

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1) CT aquisition

The SOMA database continues to acquire CT scans, and currently contains over 37,000 bones.16

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2) Segmentation

Once acquired, all bones are segmented into inner and outer cortices.

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3) Analysis

Using SOMA tools, bone morphology can be studied in a highly accurate and reproducible manner.

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4) Design input

The results of these studies, such as the population Canal Flare Index, can be utilized in impact design. 

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5) Validation

The resulting implant design can then be validated using SOMA fitting tools.

Key benefits

Unique size-specific medial curvature

Unique size-specific medial curvature
  • Offers increasing proximal conformity to enhance primary stability.6,7
  • Initial stability may be increased by creating a higher conformity between the implant and the femoral cortices, leading to a larger area of contract.8

Enhanced proximal-distal proportions1

Enhanced proximal-distal proportions
  • Distal-only engaged femoral stems can experience stress shielding8 and consequently may lead to elevated failure rates due to loosening and migration.2 In order to better mimic the femoral anatomy and avoid distal-only engagement, a more anatomic implant growth rate is needed.
  • Utilizing the SOMA femoral morphology study, a more anthropomorphic proximal-distal stem growth rate was identified. This rate led to enhanced implant proportions4, as the distal geometry of Accolade II increases in size less than the proximal geometry.
  • These proportions enable Accolade II to achieve a significantly better canal fit and fill2, and Accolade II has shown a decreased incidence of distal-only engagement.2

Optimized stem length

Optimized stem length
  • There exists a complex relationship between stem length and implant stability.10 Shortening stem length without geometry optimization has been shown to increase the potential for micromotion10, which is a strong indicator for implant failure.11
  • Accolade II utilized the SOMA database* and stability analyses to establish an optimized length for each stem size which not only accommodates muscle-sparing approaches10, but demonstrated improved initial stability.12
  • Muscle-sparing surgical approaches continue to gain popularity, due to the potential patient benefits of faster recovery13,14, less pain13,14 and greater satisfaction.15

*SOMA-design of Accolade II based on 556 CT scans.

Clinical performance

over
2,300,000
implanted
worldwide17
556
bones
in SOMA Accolade II database16

99.2%
survivorship
for Accolade II pursuant to a 3.5-year mean study4
less than
0.1mm
subsidence pursuant to
2-year RSA study12
4.31x
less intraoperative fractures
observed compared to conventional tapered wedge3