Tag: minimally invasive
SpinaFX Medical appoints Kieran Murphy as chief medical officer
Minimally invasive image-guided therapy startup, SpinaFX Medical, has announced the appointment of Kieran Murphy (University Health Network , Toronto, Canada) as chief medical officer...
Effect on leg pain is biggest factor for patients considering sciatica...
The effect on leg pain is the most important factor for patients when it comes to deciding whether or not to undergo surgery for...
Spinal News International’s top 10 most popular stories of November 2021
Research presented at the Global Spine Congress annual meeting (3–6 November 2021, Paris, France), a video on the effects of Covid-19 on spine care...
High BMI has ‘no significant effect’ on outcomes following minimally invasive...
A high body mass index (BMI) has no significant bearing on functional and clinical outcomes for patients treated by minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody...
Medtronic announces first use in US of Midas Rex drills with...
Medtronic has announced the first use of Midas Rex drills and navigated disc prep and interbodies with the Mazor robotic guidance system for minimally-invasive...
“No statistical difference in outcomes” for minimally invasive lumbar decompression or...
A study comparing short-term outcomes of minimally invasive (MI) lumbar decompression surgery to MI lumbar spine fusion surgery found no statistically significant difference in...
Alphatec advances InVictus MIS system with commercial launch of SingleStep
Alphatec Holdings announced today the commercial release of InVictus minimally invasive, or MIS, SingleStep K-wireless implant delivery system. By completely eliminating the requirement for...
Aurora Spine announces new patent for minimally invasive spinal implants
A new patent has been issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for United States Patent No. 10,143,501 entitled “Expandable Interspinous...
Minimally invasive placement of pedicle screws may lower incidence of proximal...
A recent study found that using a minimally invasive technique (MIS) for the placement of pedicle screws at the upper instrumented vertebra lowered the...
Altus Capital Partners acquires ChoiceSpine
Altus Capital Partners today announced it has acquired ChoiceSpine. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
ChoiceSpine and Knox Spine (collectively, the Company) collaborates...
First clinical use of SENTRY 2 lateral plating system announced by...
Life Spine, a privately held medical device company based in Huntley, Illinois, has announced the first clinical use of SENTRY 2 lateral plating system,...
Minimally invasive TLIF procedure results in shorter hospital stay and “good...
A prospective, randomised study presented at the 32nd EUROSPINE annual meeting held 11–13 October in Dublin, Ireland by Gabriel Tender (Louisiana State University, New...
Image-guided pulsed radiofrequency provides relief from low back pain
The majority of patients studied were pain free after receiving a new image-guided pulsed radiofrequency treatment for low back pain and sciatica, according to...
ApiFix closes Spanish distribution deal
ApiFix has agreed an exclusive distribution deal in Spain with Acuna-Fombona, an Iberian distribution company.
ApiFix has developed a minimally invasive, non-fusion spinal implant...
First US implantation of Spineway’s Mont-Blanc minimally invasive implant takes place
The completion of the first minimally invasive surgery using Spineway’s Mont-Blanc minimally invasive surgery product line has taken place in the USA. The operation...
Applying minimally invasive surgery to complex spine in Indonesia
Enthusiasm for minimally invasive surgery has exploded in recent years, promising comparative results to open surgery with less blood loss and tissue damage for...
SI-Bone submits INSITE data to Yale University Open Data Access programme
SI-Bone has submitted INSITE (Investigation of Sacroiliac Fusion Treatment) two-year randomised controlled trial data to Yale University's Open Data Access (YODA) programme.
INSITE is a...
ApiFix system reaches 100-patient milestone
The ApiFix system has now been used to correct scoliosis in 100 patients with a first case at the Paul Gerhardt Diakonie hospital in...
Tubular retractor: A new paradigm in spinal surgery
The variety of procedures in spinal surgery is extensive. While anterior and posterior open approaches are the conventional approaches, it is the posterior approach...
Minimally invasive decompression surgery for lumbar spinal stenosis and spondylolisthesis
Decompression of lumbar spinal stenosis using the traditional laminectomy technique leads to good improvement of neurogenic claudication symptoms. However, impairment of facet joint and...