Below is an excerpt from "Spine Surgery: Products, Technologies, Markets & Opportunities, Worldwide, 2008-2017," report #M510 from MedMarket Diligence.
Degenerative Disc Diseases
The mechanics of bipedalism—walking on two legs—is often cited as a factor in the development of degenerative disease of the lumbar spine. Over a normal lifespan, humans endure microtraumas and undergo bodily changes that either [...]
As I am occasionally known to do, I am providing the list of actual company names recently identified (October 2008) as medtech startups (and included in the Medtech Startups Database). See below:
Tissue Fusion, LLC (laser devices to "weld" biological tissues together for wound closures)
Applied Catheter Technologies, Inc. (drug-coated urinary and other catheters and stents that [...]
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. [...]
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