Video - Dr Rischke explains LP-ESP compared to ProDisk
 

So how many of you has this implant on your spine? Are they really good as the fact show?

@ donmas2000
 

LP-ESP 9° - Ep 12 mm - T1 L4-L5
LP-ESP 9° - Ep 10 mm - T1 L5-S1

Surgery was on November 08, 2016... so I am 4 months 22 days post-op. Even though I have severe atrophy (getting better every day) I feel so good right now overall. I have no pain in my spine, facet joints or nerves. My surgery was 100% successful, and I have been given a greater than 99% chance of making a full recovery with no restrictions by the end of May of 2017.

I'm wondering if they'll ever do a study showing the effects these newer discs have on the facet joints. I know that the Activ L did one that was pretty cool:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2666119/

Dr's using LP-ESP
 

I am most interested in this disc. Is there a list of Dr's that use this disc? I only know of Dr. Rischke.

Dr Desai in Germany -- http://www.dfk-koeln.de/leistungsspe.../das-team.html -- click the TRANSLATE BUTTON that pops up.
He prefers the LP-ESP but will do an M6 implant if that better fits a person's anatomy (x-large vertebrae in very tall men) at time of procedure. He charges around $15k Euros for one level and $20k Euros for two levels. Complete package cost excluding travel and hotels/food after being released from the hospital. I've spent months researching various discs. Those who stumble upon finding and researching this one end up getting it. Its awesome!

Send the CD with MRI to the address and include email,
symptoms, past treatments, etc

Dr. Biren Desai
Head of Department Spine Surgery
Dreifaltigkeits-Krankenhaus Köln-Braunsfeld
Aachener Straße 445 - 449
D-50933 Köln
Germany

FH Orthopedics Contact and recommendations
 

Eric Hermann
FH orthopedics
Spine Business Unit Director

+33 6 14 28 82 30
E.hermann@fhorthopedics.com

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Doctors Eric Hermann recommended:


Prof.(sk) Dr. med. PhD. B. Rischke
General surgeon,
Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgeon
Spine Surgeon
SPINE CENTER RISCHKE

Address:
Höschgasse 50/52
8008 Zürich

Phone: +41 43 538 45 14
Fax: +41 43 542 47 97
Mobile: +41 79 660 95 95
Mail: info@spine-center-rischke.ch
http://www.spine-center-rischke.ch/?...ilter=.contact


Dr. Andreas Schmitz
Specialist in neurosurgery
Specialist in movement-maintaining spinal column surgery
CLINIC BEL ETAGE PRADUS MEDICAL CENTER

Address:
40217 Düsseldorf, Germany

Phone: +49 211.781 795-0
Contact Form: http://www.clinicbeletage.de/#KONTAKT
http://www.clinicbeletage.de/index.p...eas-schmitz-2/


Dr. med. Biren Desai
Focus on spinal column surgery
Specialist for orthopedics and accident surgery
Special orthopedic surgery
Specialist in surgery, manual therapy / chirotherapy

Address:
Aachener Str. 445 - 449
50933 Köln

Phone: 02 21 / 940 71-1046
Fax: 02 21 / 940 71-1049
Mail: biren.desai@dfk-koeln.de
Mail2: tamara.hammerich@dfk-koeln.de
www.dfk-koeln.de
http://www.dfk-koeln.de/leistungsspe.../das-team.html

Thanks for the info LHerm & nasakido

The LP-ESP seems to be one of the best choices out there at this time... I'm shocked the company isn't doing more to advertise its growing popularity. The last published numbers for sales was from about 2 years ago and is only 6k. While the M6 has like 10x that number.

Fatigue and wear tests

Wear tests were conducted in a 3-axis motion simulator according to the following protocol (Fig. 7):

• Series of 10 million cycles of flexion, extension, and lateral tilting
• Frequency = 4 Hz
• Loads of 135–1,350 N
• Inclination of the prosthesis at 45° to reproduce the sagittal orientation of the disk in functional situations
• In a demineralized water bath at 37 °C

Am I the only one concerned that a load of 135 N isn't very much? I mean sure, if they do 40 million cycles at 1,350 N... Highly impressive. But no indication of what the distribution of those force ranges were.