While patient concerns remain a significant driver in the development of minimally invasive techniques, technological advances in surgical instrumentation have transformed the theoretical to the practical. Advanced fluoroscopy, or x-ray imaging during surgery, has markedly improved the accuracy of incisions made and hardware placed. A variety of endoscopes, camera-tipped wands, can be inserted through small [...]
The global spine market is large, active and growing rapidly in revenues. Several dynamic forces, in addition to the aging of the population, are expected to affect the market and treatments during the next several years. While spinal fusion will always have a place, its share of the treatment market is expected to decline. Newer [...]
If there is a more robust area of medtech development — one with more success in creating clinical and market value while resisting pricing pressures — than spine surgery, I would be surprised. The global spine market is large, active and growing rapidly in revenues. Several dynamic forces, in addition to the aging of the [...]
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 [...]
Startups in the field of spine surgery and related technologies (neuromodulation, pain management, etc.) this decade cover a breathtaking number of new technologies seeking to address every possible improvement in restoring spine stability or preserving motion, reducing pain, reducing surgical invasivenes, improving long term outcomes and other improvements. (Note, data in table is drawn from [...]
[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 [...]
The spinal surgery industry has been around for several decades, but during the last few years new products and technologies have been introduced at a more rapid rate than has been seen for many years. See exhibit below (from MedMarket Diligence report #M510) illustrating the recent burst in new company formation focused on spine surgery. [...]
Surgeons performing instrumented spinal fusion procedures implant various configurations of plates, rods, screws, cages, and other medical hardware to stabilize the spine and facilitate proper vertebral bone fusion. These fixation systems can be implanted via anterior (from the front) or posterior (from the back) approaches, depending on the clinical indication. Most fusion systems are made [...]
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