How Spinal Surgery History Was Made Through a Tiny Tube

How Spinal Surgery History Was Made Through a Tiny Tube (Texas Back Institute) On Saturday, December 13, 2014, another spine surgeon from Texas Back Institute made history. Dr. John Peloza performed the first FLXfit™ surgery in the United States, implanting one of the world’s first 3D expandable interbody cage. This surgery is a dramatic evolution of minimally invasive, spinal fusion procedure. How does this differ from the traditional fusion surgery?

“The FLXfit™ Expandable Cage is an improvement because it covers a large surface area of the disc space and it expands in the front of the disc...


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