Suddenly, there's lots of activity around these new artificial discs. Here are some topics and links:

What's going on with the Active- L artificial disc?
Mfr Brochures

Discussion Topics and Post-op Outcomes:

Kineflex vs Charité Clinical Study
http://www.spine-health.com/research...ineflex01.html

Kineflex Clinical Study to Treat DDD
http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct/show/NCT00292292

Kineflex L5/S1 Surgery: Greg's story
http://www.greghughes.net/rant/Searc...spx?q=kineflex

There are more brochures here, on both ProDisc and Active L:
http://www.dhwaldron.net/adr/pdf/

Plus a home study of ADR here:
www.aorn.org/Journal/homestudy/aug05a.pdf