UNION CITY, Calif., (August 9,2005) – OSI, the leading manufacturer of specialty surgical tables for spinal, orthopedic trauma, and image-guided surgery, announces the hana™ Hip and Knee Arthoplasty Table – the only surgical table designed exclusively for hip and knee arthoplasty.

Mark Lane, OSI's VP of Worldwide Sales and Marketing says, "The new hana™ table offers a compact, technologically superior instrument for Hip and Knee Surgeons around the world. It serves two of the fastest growing orthopedic procedures today: the tissue sparring, single incision Anterior Approach to Hip replacement and Total Knee Arthroplasty."

With its unique capability to position the leg, the hana™ enables the surgeon to replace the hip through a single incision, Anterior Approach without detachment of muscle from the pelvis or femur. The table allows hyperextension, adduction and external rotation of the hip for femoral component placement – a positioning option not possible with conventional tables. The lack of disturbance to the lateral and posterior soft tissues provides immediate stability of the hip after surgery.

Designed and tested in live surgeries by orthopedic surgeons, the new hana™ table will be available for hospital and surgery centers by the fourth quarter of 2005.

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