(Newswire.net — May 14, 2015) Ione, CA — At this year’s International Society for the Advancement of Spine Surgery, 15th Annual Conference, Dr. Ritter-Lang and his team presented a report on the Two Year, Multi-Center Outcomes for the Treatment of Degenerative Disc Disease in the Lumbar Spine Using Spinal Kinetics M6 Lumbar disc replacement implant.
At the conference Dr. Ritter-Lang and his team reported significantly decreased back pain in both multi-level and single level disc replacement patients at two years Using a Novel, Compressible Core Prosthesis called the Spinal Kinetics M6 Artificial Disc Replacement.
Low back pain is one of the most prevalent problems in industrialized countries, affecting as many as 80% of all adults at some time in their lives. Among the significant contributors to low back pain is degenerative disc disease (DDD). Although fusion surgery has been well accepted for treatment of DDD, high rates of complications and stress to adjacent segments remain a concern.
Disc replacement technology has come a long way in recent years and thousands of fusions are now being avoided. Improved disc replacement implants now provide a natural “Quality of Motion” unlike any of the early disc replacement implant designs.
Unlike the early disc replacement designs, the advanced disc replacement implants now available offer improved end-plate fixation, reducing implant migration and the risk of revision surgery. These disc replacement implants also have motion control, to reduce post-op hyper-activity and long term complications caused by early ball-in-socket disc replacement implants, which have been found to stress facet joints, ligaments, and muscles causing future complications. These next generation disc replacement products also have added the safety of shock absorption, to prevent injury to adjacent structures.
A multi-center, single arm, prospective post-market registry study of the Spinal Kinetics M6® Disc Replacement reported on those patients who have completed at least 24 months of follow-up. The results of the paired pain tests indicated that both multi-level and single level disc replacement groups were significantly improved at 24 months.
This is the first study to report two year clinical and radiographic outcomes of Artificial Disc Replacement surgery using the Spinal Kinetics M6 Lumbar disc replacement implant in both single level and multi-level patients. The results show significantly decreased back pain, initial device safety and effectiveness when used for the treatment of lumbar degenerative disc disease at one or more lumbar spine levels.
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Dr. Ritter-Lang and his team provide multi-level and single level disc replacement surgery using the Spinal Kinetics M6 disc Replacement.