Friday, November 19, 2004

New science for creaky backs

dinosaur vertebraApparently the first artificial spinal disc is about a year from FDA approval -- it could offer an alternative to fusion of vertebrae for folks who lose their natural disc cushions to degenerative disease or injury.
“This is the first major breakthrough in back surgery since the 1940s,” says orthopedic surgeon Richard Guyer of the Texas Back Institute in Plano.
(via boing boing)

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