The equipment includes flexible intramedullary reamers, flexible screwdrivers, flexible drills and cutters, biopsy forceps, endoscopes and endoscopic accessories. Flexible shafts are increasingly gaining in significance within the scope of the advances in minimally invasive surgery. They can be used to transmit movements and forces even in complicated procedures. By feeding cables and fibre optics through the hollow shafts, surgeons are provided additional options by being able to supply electricity and laser beams to parts of the body being operated on.