CENTER VALLEY, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--More than twenty-five thousand patients seek emergency medical treatment for spinal trauma each year. The most common are burst fractures of the vertebral body in the thoracolumbar region. The vast majority of these cases are treated with simple rods attached to the pedicles from a posterior approach and manipulated by the Neurological or Orthopaedic Spine surgeon. This procedure has been relatively unchanged for the last 20 years. Although accepted in the orthopaedic and neurological communities as the standard of care, this approach can be difficult to learn, control, and reproduce, particularly in lower volume trauma hospitals and teaching institutions. With the introduction of Aesculap Implant Systems’ S4 FRI, or Fracture Reduction Instrumentation, fracture treatment of the spine can now be accomplished with control, precision, and is easily reproducible.
