GECO - All you want to know about visco-elastic disc replacement

This webinar is the first webinar entirely dedicated to spine arthroplasty and focused on a new generation of cervical and lumbar disc prostheses: using visco-elastic technology.

This webinar is led by some members of the S.A.C (Spine Arthroplasty Community) sub-group of the GECO.

The objective is to give you an overview of the concepts and the functional results linked to this innovative technology.

Thanks to their monobloc design visco-elastic prostheses are aimed to restore physiological movements providing six degrees of freedom and three-dimensional motion including shock absorption.

Spine Surgeon

Orthopaedic surgeon

Neurosurgeon

Sales person/Distributor = Medical device industry

Fellow

Introduction - Prof. Patrick TROPIANO (5 minutes)

A new generation of total disc replacement

Prof. Marc-Antoine ROUSSEAU (15 min - Presentation and Q&A)

What do we know about biomechanics in visco-elastic disc replacement?

Prof. Jean-Yves LAZENNEC (15 min - Presentation and Q&A)

Facet joint pain: main differences between visco-elastic and mechanical disc prosthesis preliminary impressions from a Swedish RCT Study

Assoc. Prof. Svante BERG (15 min - Presentation and Q&A)

Conclusion (10 minutes)