Introduction:
In 2024, Globus will "eat" Nuvasive. Nuvasive will be completely integrated and digested by GMED. The purple wave will become a memory.
I may be a bit nostalgic, but I believe that its worth looking back at where Nuvasive came from as told by the little-know founder, Dr. Jim Marino.
Early website circa 2000
NuVasive’s Early Beginnings! The Story told by its Founder! (SpineMarketGroup)
June 2023 by Jim Marino–There are only a few parties who are familiar with the earliest beginnings of NuVasive. I am one of them, as I was the founder and I gave the company its name. Initially, the early inventive concepts that germinated NuVasive were developed from my interests in arthroscopy and spine surgery. I was one of the early resident-trained arthroscopists in the early 1980’s and it was apparent that many procedural applications were a consequence of developing facilitating instrumentation to effect MIS peripheral joint surgery. As a relatively newly minted orthopedist, my primary interest was in expanding arthroscopic applications (from knee to shoulder, to elbow, to ankle).
My patient population was however largely composed of peo...
