Improve your quality of life with the MINIMALLY INVASIVE MYSPINE PLATFORM

Suffering from back, hip or leg pain? If back, hip or leg pain limits your daily activities, affects your mood, your health and your general well-being... You’re certainly not alone! Has your doctor recommended Spinal Fusion? MySpine is a patient specific, Minimally Invasive solution allowing for a fast recovery and pain reduction. There are a number of surgical and non-surgical solutions available to treat your disease. Depending on your condition, your doctor may suggest that you undergo a spinal fusion (which is a surgical procedure used to correct problems with the vertebrae in your spine)....

The MIS MySpine Patient-Specific Platform may be your solution! MySpine is an innovative MIS, patient-specific surgical platform specifically designed to your personal spinal anatomy to improve clinical outcomes and reduce your radiation exposure in the operating room.

Spine Anatomy The spine is one of the most important structures in the human body. It supports a large majority of the body’s weight, provides points of attachment for muscles and ligaments, and protects the spinal cord. A healthy spine is strong yet flexible, allowing a wide range of movements. The spine is made up of individual vertebrae and is divided into four major regions: the cervical curve, the thoracic curve, the lumbar curve, and the sacrum/coccyx. Discs are located between the vertebrae and act as shock absorbers to protect the vertebrae and allow spinal rotation and bending. Each...

What is Degenerative Disc Disease? Degenerative changes in your spine may cause you instability and pain in your back. Degenerative disc disease (DDD) involves the degeneration of your intervertebral discs as you age which can cause your discs to lose elasticity, flexibility, and height. This may happen gradually, simply from everyday normal wear, or from a prior back injury. When this happens, your discs lose their shock absorbing abilities which can lead to abnormal motion or misalignment of your spine, which often results in pain. Symptoms of degenerative disc disease include any combination...

MySpine MC - A Minimally Invasive Medacta solution The surgeon can access the spine following a «conventional» open surgical approach or a Minimally Invasive Surgical approach (MIS). Open approaches can be potentially associated with postoperative muscle atrophy when the back muscular innervation is accidentally injured during surgery. On the other hand, a true Minimally Invasive Surgery is characterized by the preservation of the muscular complex structure and a shorter skin incision. MySpine MC is truly a Minimally Invasive Surgery Thanks to its muscle sparing technique, muscles are gently...

What is a MySpine MC Minimally Invasive Spinal Fusion? A MySpine MC spinal fusion surgery is a means of using patient-specific, 3D-printed surgical instruments to help facilitate your minimally invasive spinal procedure. In most cases, your surgeon will remove the damaged intervertebral disc(s) between two vertebrae and stabilize your spine by fusing them together through a small incision. Using the MySpine patient-specific surgical instruments, your surgeon will safely insert multiple pedicle screws into your vertebrae, then an interbody device is inserted into your intervertebral disc space,...

The Minimally Invasive MySpine MC Journey MySpine MC is a surgical instrument designed to accurately fit your vertebrae. How does it work? OBTAIN AN IMAGE OF YOUR SPINE The surgeon will ask you to have a CT scan of your vertebral column. Medacta have developed a specific “Low Dose CT Protocol” to ensure the safe acquisition of your image. In fact, you will receive a very similar amount of irradiation to one single spine x-ray! REPLICATION OF YOUR SPINE Using images of your spine, Medacta will create a plastic 3D model for each of the vertebra to be treated, in order to allow the Surgeon to select...

Why a MySpine MC Minimally Invasive surgery? A Minimally Invasive surgery causes less surgical trauma than other techniques because back muscles are preserved, leading to a faster recovery.[1,2,3] Consequently, MIS MySpine MC approach can potentially provide you with the following benefits: 1. DECREASED POSTOPERATIVE PAIN In comparison with “conventional” open surgical techniques, the MySpine MC approach can reduce the postoperative pain thanks to a less invasive technique.[2,3] “Thanks to this surgery I have my life back” a patient of MD P. Verstraete, Belgium 2. SHORTER REHABILITATION The MySpine...

Bibliographic references: [1] Matsukawa K. et al., Cortical pedicle screw trajectory technique using 3D printed patient-specific-guide, M.O.R.E. Journal, September 2018. [2] Marengo N. et al., Cortical Bone Trajectory Screw Placement Accuracy with a Patient-Matched 3-Dimensional Printed Guide in Lumbar Spinal Surgery: A Clinical Study, WORLD NEUROSURGERY, June 2019 [3] Marengo N. et al., Cortical Bone Trajectory Screws in Posterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion: Minimally Invasive Surgery for Maximal Muscle Sparing—A Prospective Comparative Study with the Traditional Open Technique, Clinical Study,...

If you still have any questions or concerns about your Patient-Specifc Spinal Fusion, contact your doctor and discuss the pros and cons to make sure it is the right option for you. To find out more about MySpine please visit the website: “Receiving a personalized, tailored surgery that was based on my specific anatomy made me feel more confident in the surgeon. Being able to see and hold a model of my own spine with my own eyes and hands really helped me understand my pain and trust my operation. I would definitely recommend this to my peers!” J.S., USA Medacta International SA Strada Regina...