THE TEN BEST NEW SPINE TECHNOLOGIES FOR 2016 (by Robin Young, Orthopedics This Week)
Robots, 3D printing and clever strategies for navigating the patient’s anatomy in error free ways, dominated this year’s winning technologies. It’s not about newness, it’s about reducing risk and long, expensive hospital stays. The technologies that make that happen for the rank and file spine surgeon were winners for 2016.
The ten winning companies with the BEST new spine care technologies for 2016 were: Cerapedics, Inc., EOS imaging, K2M Group Holdings, Inc., Life Spine, Inc., Mazor Robotics Ltd, Medtech SA, Mighty Oak Medical, Orthopedic Sciences, Inc., SpineGuard, Inc. and Vertera Spine.
CONGRATULATIONS to all of our winners for 2016!
Rewarding Innovation and Perspiration
This annual award rewards inventors, engineering teams, surgeons and their companies who’ve created the most innovative, enduring and practical products in 2016 to treat back pain. To win the Orthopedics This Week Best New Technology Award for spine care, a new technology must meet the following criteria:
Be creative and innovative.
Have long term significance to the problem of treating the diseases of the spine. Does this te...
