The Neurological Evaluation and Medical Management of Acute Spinal Cord Injury Anthony S. Burns Ralph J. Marino Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a devastating, life-altering event. Approximately 11,000 new injuries…
Pathophysiology of Spinal Cord Injury Timothy B. Himes Spinal cord injury is not one event, but a sequence of interrelated processes that can ultimately lead to destruction of neural tissue…
Outcome & Cost of Lumbar Disc Replacement Versus Lumbar Fusion Marc Du Bois Peter Donceel Painful lumbar disc degeneration is the leading cause of pain and disability in adults in…
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 Ludo Haazen Medical devices are a huge and very heterogenous group of products, varying from wheel chairs and hospital beds, diagnostic…
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…
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…
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 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 J. Sénégas Background Necessity being the mother of innovation, distal joint repair and replacement began much earlier…
