23.7.10

SPINEGUARD S.A.: PediGuard - electrical audio device detects vertebral cortex.

TORONTO Scoliosis Research Society meeting:

SPINEGUARD S.A. exhibited PEDIGUARD which changes audio signal when pedicle screw placer touches CORTICAL bone.

Invented by Neurosurgeon Ciaran BOLGER & Engineer Maurice BOURLION.in 2006.
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ALPHATEC SPINE Inc. HeliFix TM Interspinous Spacer System

SCOLIOSIS RESEARCH SOCIETY at TORONTO Sheraton Center.

ALPHATEC SPINE Inc.,CARLSBAD,California showed the HeliFix TM Interspinous Spacer at $2,000.

Developed by YALE ORTHOPAEDIC & REHABILITATION Assoc.PROF.James YUE BA(Harvard) MD(Northwestern 1992)

To be launched at EUROSPINE, VIENNA, Sept. 2010.