MOBI-C: LOWER PAIN, LESS ADJACENT LEVEL DEGENERATION (Orthopedics This Week)
Warsaw, Indiana-based Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. has announced that a new study (seven-year follow up) has affirmed earlier studies that Mobi-C Cervical Disc fares better than anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF).
The study, "Long-term Evaluation of Cervical Disc Arthroplasty with the Mobi-C® Cervical Disc: A Randomized, Prospective, Multicenter Clinical Trial with Seven-Year Follow-up," appears in the January 2018 edition of the International Journal of Spine Surgery.
According to Zimmer Biomet, the study “reports on the continuation of a prospective, randomized clinical trial of cTDR [cervical total disc replacement] with Mobi-C compared to the previous standard of care, anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF), and follows the nearly 600 patients through seven years.”
“Researchers found that cTDR with Mobi-C was associated with lower pain scores, maintained range of motion, less adjacent level degeneration and adjacent level subsequent surgery, as well as a lower rate of secondary surgery compared to ACDF.”
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