Various Artificial Disc Designs

Overviews, Investment Reports and Market Assessments

There are various disc replacement designs available today, most in FDA trial. A good overview of artificial discs with pictures is found at:

https://www.spine-health.com/treatment/back-surgery/artificial-disc-replacement-or-spinal-fusion-which-better-you

These newsletters offer info on 13 prominent designs for lumbar and cervical replacement with useful anecdotal insights:

https://web.archive.org/web/20081202183921/http://www.trends-in-medicine.com/Dec2003/SpineSoc123p.pdf

https://web.archive.org/web/20081203084737/http://www.trends-in-medicine.com/April2004/Orthopedic044p.pdf

vFinance Investments summarizes key players in the disc replacement market and has included brief company profiles. This is mainly financial information for investment purposes:

https://web.archive.org/web/20101202015218/http://www.vfinance.com/pdfs/Spinal_final072004.pdf

This report is by Viscogliosi Brothers entitled, Beyond Total Disc, The Future of Spine Surgery, dated May 2004. It is a richly detailed report (300 pages) complete with overviews from top surgeon visionaries, assessments of disc replacement technologies, including biologics; market sizing, companies, etc.

http://a788.g.akamaitech.net/7/788/915/ec84ccbf519a9a/images.gomez.com/images/Alerts/SAReport 2004.pdf

Note: Viscogliosi Brothers was partly responsible for raising financing to fund the operations of Spine Solutions, Inc. to market the ProDisc.