Life Spine Announces Continued Success and Industry Adoption of ProLift® Micro Endoscopic Expandable Spacer System

HUNTLEY, IL., October 16, 2024 –(BUSINESS WIRE)– Life Backbone, Inc., a number one medical gadget firm specializing within the design, improvement, manufacturing, and advertising of merchandise for the surgical remedy of spinal problems, right now introduced the continued adoption of its ProLift Micro Endoscopic Expandable Spacer System. This technique makes use of the identical Micro Invasive™ tube for entry, disc preparation, and interbody supply, additional advancing the corporate’s strategy to Micro Invasive fusions.

Making Fusions Micro.

Constructing on the success of Life Backbone’s expandable portfolio, with over 72,000 implants offered, the corporate has constructed upon the know-how to permit for the insertion of a small, expandable implant by way of a Micro Invasive tube. This revolutionary strategy permits all steps of the process, together with disc preparation, visualization, and interbody placement, to be carried out by way of the identical entry level.

The ProLift Micro is engineered particularly for integration with the Micro Invasive entry tube, permitting surgeons to entry the affected disc house effectively. Surgeons can carry out complete disc preparation utilizing superior, expandable devices that stretch past the tube’s peripheral diameter to take away and seize disc materials. The system additionally permits seamless placement of the expandable interbody for endoscopic fusion — all with out removing of the entry tube.

A complete cadaveric examine evaluating the MIS Tubular TLIF strategy with the Endoscopic TLIF strategy demonstrated that discectomy efficiency was equal between the 2 strategies, validating the effectiveness of the ProLift Micro system¹.

“The ProLift Micro system permits for secure and environment friendly creation of a fusion setting whereas additionally permitting for oblique decompression of neural parts by way of a minimally invasive strategy. The instrumentation and strategy are straightforward to make use of, and we’ve got been capable of present by way of cadaveric experimentation that you would be able to obtain a discectomy for fusion akin to a standard minimally invasive TLIF approach. Early medical outcomes from my observe have been nice and I proceed to include it into all my TLIF circumstances,” mentioned Dr. Sohrab Virk of New Hyde Park, NY.

“ProLift Micro is an efficient (actually) minimally invasive possibility for lumbar interbody fusion, foraminal distraction, and restoration of disc peak,” mentioned Dr. Derrick Dupre of Trinity, FL. “It may be inserted absolutely endoscopic, with out the necessity for tubular retractors which have been the standard mainstay of minimally invasive surgical procedure previous to the proliferation of actually endoscopic spine surgical procedure. With the right coaching and understanding of anatomy and neurophysiology, that is an indispensable instrument within the neurosurgeons’ armamentarium and might be blended with a number of various kinds of approaches as properly.”

¹Boddapati V, Yuk F, Virk S. A Cadaveric Comparability of Discectomy Efficiency Throughout Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion Method Utilizing an Endoscopic Method versus a Minimally Invasive Tubular Method. Backbone (Phila Pa 1976). 2024 Aug 15. doi: 10.1097/BRS.0000000000005122. Epub forward of print. PMID:39146210.

About Life Backbone, Inc.

Life Backbone is devoted to bettering the standard of life for spinal sufferers by rising procedural effectivity and efficacy by way of revolutionary design, uncompromising high quality requirements, and essentially the most technologically superior manufacturing platforms. Life Backbone, which is privately held, is predicated in Huntley, Illinois. For extra data, please go to: http://www.lifespine.com.