One of the most exciting areas in spinal surgery today is the non-fusion area. Surgeons and engineers are creating devices that can be implanted to treatment various spine conditions without fusion, thus allowing the patient to retain at least some movement and flexibility that would otherwise be lost by fusing vertebrae together. Although fusion is [...]
In the global market for spine surgery products/technologies, there is a progressive caseload shift away from spine fusion and toward alternative technologies are less invasive, provide more flexibility in the spine, minimize pain, and/or provide other benefits. Accordingly, spine fusion revenues are expected to be flat as bone graft substitutes, total disc replacement and vertebroplasty/kyphoplasty [...]
Spine fusion revenues are expected to be flat as bone graft substitutes, total disc replacement and vertebroplasty/kyphoplasty begin to replace some spinal fusion procedures. Nucleus replacement, a market in its infancy, will also be increasing during the period covered in this study, but will remain a relatively modest sub-segment of the entire market. The chart [...]
HealthPartners in Minnesota is planning to begin next month requiring surgeons to advise patients of less expensive alternatives to spine surgery for treatment of their low back pain. At $25,000 per surgery for the roughly 600 procedures it covered in 2007, HealthPartners paid $15 million for procedures that, it believes, in some cases were not [...]
[Having covered a very wide range of medical technology markets, spanning cardiology to gastroenterology, biotechs to devices and disposables/reusables/"reposables" to capital equipment, I have to note that the spine surgery market is really unique among all of them --- resistant to cost containment, persistently device-oriented, and subject to tremendous innovation all the same. In some [...]
Below is a report from MedMarket Diligence on the worldwide market for spine surgery technologies. The report is described at link. Spine Surgery Worldwide 2008-2017: Products, Technologies, Markets & Opportunities, Worldwide, 2008-2017 · 380 pages · 190 Exhibits · 98 Company Profiles · Report #M510 · Published March 2008 This report details the complete range [...]
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