Diminution of lower back pain has been a goal of lumbar surgery for degenerative
conditions for many years. Spinal surgeons have been trying to optimize their diagnostic and …

Although spinal fusion has been the definitive surgical management of symptomatic lumbar
degenerative conditions, continued reports of adjacent level degeneration and suboptimal …

Spinal motion-sparing technologies have been progressively introduced to address the
adverse effects of traditional spinal fusion: stiffness, pseudarthrosis, mechanical failure …

Traditionally, management of spinal pathology has centered on decompression, correction
of deformity, and stabilization. Deformity correction and stabilization have been …

Study Design: A systematic medline review. Objective: An overview of pedicle-based
dynamic stabilization devices clinical outcomes. Summary of Background Data: Fusion is the …

Objective To provide a comprehensive review of the available literature reporting clinical
results of using pedicle-based posterior dynamic stabilization systems in the lumbar spine …

Posterior dynamic stabilization (PDS) indicates motion preservation devices that are aimed
for surgical treatment of activity related mechanical low back pain. A large number of such …

Over the last decades, spinal fusion has become one of the most important principles in
surgical treatment of spinal pathologies. Despite the undoubted benefits of fusion surgery …

Background Complications associated with rigid posterior instrumented fusions of the
lumbar spine include pseudarthrosis, accelerated adjacent-segment disease, hardware …

Motion sparing posterior dynamic stabilization (PDS) devices have been introduced as an
alternative to spinal fusion. A majority of these devices are based on instrumentation and …