NEW SPINE REPAIR

Today as I was sitting here with a hurting back, I was thinking how many people I know and how this may help us all.
In the Salt Lake City Tribune, the FDA gives the green light for this Salt Lake City Company to use a ceramic device for spine-repair.
Car crashes, degenerative bone disease and all those other injuries to the spine, there is a new option for replacing parts of the spine.
Amedica, got clearance to market ceramic devices that can replace discs and other parts of the spine.
The only way to do a spine repair is to harvest bones from cadavers. Sometimes they use your leg bone if they can. The people have told me that hurt worse than the back repair.
This would eliminate that procedure.
The spine spacers are used when patients have suffered damage to discs or the bone of the spine.
Once the damaged material is surgically removed, a ceramic piece is attached to the spinal column. As bone grows, it begins to bind with the ceramic spacer; eventually bone will surround the entire device.
The spacer gives the spine strength and prevents movement during the bone-regrowth process.
When cadaver bone is grated there is a risk of disease transmission, the spacer would cut down that risk.
Ceramic material will be easier to see in a medical imaging device where the old titanium one made it difficult to see in x-ray.
The procedure will begin soon at the local hospitals soon.
This is a new procedure not all Doctors may know about it yet.