The SWISSspine Registry
The SWISSspine Registry C. Röder P. Moulin M. Aebi Cost containment is a pressing issue in all modern health care systems. Although medical innovations, demographic changes, and an ever-increasing entitlement…
An Introduction to the Medical Device Regulation in Europe
An Introduction to the Medical Device Regulation in Europe Ludo Haazen Medical devices are a huge and very heterogenous group of products, varying from wheel chairs and hospital beds, diagnostic…
A New Cervical Disc Prosthesis: Mobi-C. Preliminary Results of a Prospective Study
A New Cervical Disc Prosthesis: Mobi-C. Preliminary Results of a Prospective Study Pierre Bernard Jean-Marc Vital Thierry Dufour Jacques Beaurain Jean-Marc Fuentes Jean Huppert Istvan Hovorka With most joints, for…
The Quest for the New
The Quest for the New B. Hanson This is a congress in which orthopedic surgeons meet to learn, to discuss new techniques, and to discard obsolete techniques. This is an…
ProdiscC™ Cervical Disc Prosthesisin the First 68 Patients: One-Year Evaluation of Results
ProdiscC™ Cervical Disc Prosthesisin the First 68 Patients: One-Year Evaluation of Results Petr Suchomel Pavel Barsa P. Sourkova P. Buchvald R. Fröehlich J. Hradil A promising experience with lumbar disc…
Posterior Nonfusion Stabilization of the Degenerated Lumbar Spine with Cosmic
Posterior Nonfusion Stabilization of the Degenerated Lumbar Spine with Cosmic Archibald von Strempel Dieter Moosmann Christoph Stoos Arno Martin Introduction The degeneration of the lumbar motion segment starts with a…
Mechanical Supplementation by Dynamic Fixation in Degenerative Intervertebral Lumbar Segments: The Wallis System
Mechanical Supplementation by Dynamic Fixation in Degenerative Intervertebral Lumbar Segments: The Wallis System J. Sénégas Background Necessity being the mother of innovation, distal joint repair and replacement began much earlier…
Impliant TOPS: Total Posterior Arthroplasty System
Impliant TOPS: Total Posterior Arthroplasty System Richard D. Guyer Introduction Pain arising from degenerative changes in the posterior elements has long been treated with decompression or decompression combined with fusion….
MRI Changes in the Lumbar Spine Following Treatment with the X STOP Interspinous Distraction Device
MRI Changes in the Lumbar Spine Following Treatment with the X STOP Interspinous Distraction Device F. W. Smith Intermittent neurogenic claudication as a result of lumbar spinal stenosis accounts for…
X STOP Interspinous Implant for Lumbar Spinal Decompression
X STOP Interspinous Implant for Lumbar Spinal Decompression Jim F. Zucherman Patrick Simons Jake Timothy Neurogenic intermittent claudication (NIC) secondary to lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) is a posture-dependent complaint and…
