Intelligent Solutions for the Spine

Perception(TM) is the first load sharing polyaxial screw system with a number of capabilities:  

• Linear Load Sharing within the Implant Body
• Screw Angulation can be locked independently of rod for easier reduction.
• Constructed from the most advanced and highest strength
 implant grade titanium alloy.

• Full System including rod-to-rod connectors and simple instrumentation.

The Active Screw™ is the first bone screw to apply Wolffs law to provide active loading of bone around the screw to enhance positive bone growth and to improve screw thread fixation.

• In the 19th century, anatomist and surgeon Julius Wolff theorized that bone remodels over time to increasing loads in order to resist the load and thereby becoming stronger.
• Initial animal study data has been very encouraging and will be on display at the 2010 NASS. This technology can be utilized for spine and all other orthopaedic applications using screw fixation, and may be especially useful in enhancing the fixation of dynamic spinal systems.

MIND™ is a new system and approach to the treatment of scoliosis.

• Rather than using long rods to span large sections of the spine, often from the sacrum to the upper thoracic spine, MIND allows the surgeon to break the procedure down into smaller sections, using short rod lengths.
• For the first time, a surgeon can correct one section of the spine at a time and then add additional sections as needed. This segmental approach simplifies the surgical procedure, and permits the surgeon to complete curve correction in a gentler, more controlled manner.
• By using small openings instead of the current extremely long incision lengths, it is our goal to reduce surgical trauma and recovery time, making the procedure significantly less traumatic.
• The system will be on display at NASS and the FDA filing is expected by the end of 2010.