Tag: lumbar spinal stenosis

Wenzel Spine receives US FDA clearance expanding clinical indications for primaLOK...

Wenzel Spine has gained US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for its primaLOK SP system—marking a "significant advancement in spinal fusion technology", offering...

AI can help determine surgical candidacy of LSS patients to comparable...

Artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to bring efficiency and automation to the decision-making process for determining surgical candidacy for those with lumbar spinal...

Aurora Spine bags FDA lumbar spinal stenosis indication clearance for ZIP...

Aurora Spine has announced US Food and Drug FDA clearance of a new lumbar spinal stenosis indication for use for its ZIP family of...

Insurance type associated with differing patient-reported outcomes in those with lumbar...

Patients with lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) who are insured in the USA through Medicaid have systematically worse baseline patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) across almost...

Boston Scientific closes acquisition of Vertiflex

Boston Scientific has announced the close of its acquisition of Vertiflex, a privately-held company that developed and commercialised the Superion Indirect Decompression System, a minimally-invasive...

Low back pain is significantly improved in the majority of patients...

A recent study found that low back pain is significantly improved in 74% of patients immediately after surgery for lumbar spinal stenosis and that...

Vertos Medical granted CE mark for spinal stenosis treatment

Vertos Medical said it has received CE mark approval for its lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) treatment device kit. According to a press release, the company's Mild...

Positive payor policy covering coflex for the surgical treatment of lumbar...

A Select Health of South Carolina clinical policy, dated 1 September, 2018, has been issued for the exclusive coverage of the coflex interlaminar stabilisation...

Positive payor policy covering coflex by AmeriHealth Caritas for the surgical...

An AmeriHealth Caritas Clinical Policy, dated 1 September, 2018, has been issued for the exclusive coverage of the coflex interlaminar stabilisation device (Paradigm Spine) for...

Vertiflex announces 85% reduction in patients using opioids after treatment with...

  Vertiflex has announced additional results from a randomised, controlled trial of its Superion Indirect Decompression System in patients with lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS). The...

IVANOS study reveals i-FACTOR bone graft use more than doubles fusion...

Level 1 evidence, presented at EUROSPINE 2018 in Barcelona, Spain, demonstrates that i-FACTOR peptide enhanced bone graft results in significantly higher rates of fusion...