The NY Times reported today that Zimmer Holdings obtained FDA approval for knee replacements specifically designed to more closely match women's anatomy. This is the first in a planned product line called Gender Solutions that will include "feminine hips and other artificial joints."
I don't know if this would include ADR but one of the issues for me with a 2-level cervical ADR is the question of whether my vertebra would be large enough to support a prosthesis above and below.
Also of interest, given Medicare's non-approval of ADR partly on the grounds of its not having been shown to be better than fusion, is that the article notes that Zimmer only had to demonstrate that their new prosthesis was not worse than other knee replacements.
www.nytimes.com/2006/05/11/business/11knees.html
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2001 MVA; C5-C6 disk extruded
ongoing physical therapy, exercise and massage
ESI's, oral prednisone, trigger point injections
foraminal and central stenosis C5/C6 and c6/C7
2007 EMG/nerve conduction shows pattern of chronic radiculopathy
January, 2008: Prestige ST Artificial Disk Replacement, C5/6
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