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News on Spinal Motion Preservation

Welcome to the Spinal Motion Preservation Section of SpineTechNews.com, where you can find the latest news about Spinal Motion Preservation. Check back here often for new and useful products. Your back pain is history!

Recent Spinal Motion Preservation News

• Training Facility Opened for Minimally Invasive Lumbar Decompression Procedure to Treat Lumbar Spinal Stenosis

  Vertos Medical was founded in 2005 to develop a percutaneous method for lumbar spine decompression to treat patients with lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS), a degenerative, age-related narrowing of the lower spinal canal. Its first proprietary platform technology, is called mild or Minimally Invasive Lumbar Decompression.

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• FDA Advisory Panel Votes to Not Approve OP-1 Putty for the Treatment of Lumbar Spondylolisthesis

  An FDA advisory panel voted 6-1 that Stryker’s PMA for its OP-1 Putty for uninstrumented posterolateral fusion for the treatment of lumbar spondylolisthesis was not approvable. Stryker was seeking this approval based on 24 months of clinical outcome data and 36 month CT scan and reoperation rates

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• X-STOP: A Less Invasive Treatment Option for Spinal Stenosis?

  Patients suffering from lumbar spinal stenosis could benefit from a new surgical implant called the X-STOP.

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• TOPS System: Alternative to Spinal Fusion

  The TOPS system is designed to stabilize the spine after decompression without the need for fusion.

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• TOPS Less Invasive Spine System

  Impliant has conducted the first surgery in the US using a less-invasive version of its Tops system, a total posterior arthroplasty device designed to treat spinal stenosis with or without facet arthrosis and spondylolisthesis.

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• Facet Solutions Unveils New Joint Reconstruction System

  Facet Solutions combined their Anatomic Facet Replacement System (AFRS) with a semi-constrained disc replacement product to create a a total joint replacement device for the lumbar spine.

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• Spinal Nonfusion Technologies Achieve Rapid Adoption

  Surgeons and patients alike are becoming more aware of the nonfusion treatment options for spinal surgery.

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• Minimally invasive laminectomy: Better Than Traditional Open Procedure?

  Is minimally invasive laminectomy proven to be any better than the traditional open procedure?

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• TFAS Total Facet Arthroplasty System: What are the Benefits?

  What are the benefits to the patient with the TFAS system as opposed to current treatments for spinal stenosis?

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• Surgery May Provide More Rapid Improvement for Spinal Stenosis

  Individuals suffering from a common back condition known as spinal stenosis improve more with surgery than with non-surgical treatment, according to a study.

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