Centinel Spine in the News: Mountain West Spine Brings Patient Specific Solutions for Spinal Disc Replacement to the Treasure Valley
“While the majority of my patients can return to an active lifestyle through conservative, nonsurgical methods, a small percentage of them require surgical intervention. This minimally invasive procedure has allowed my appropriate patient candidates the opportunity to maintain motion in the affected segment with excellent long-term results.”
– Dr. W. Daniel Bradley (from the article)
Photo: Dr. W. Daniel Bradley
Source: Mountain West Spine
W. Daniel Bradley MD, an Orthopaedic Spine Surgeon and Founder of Mountain West Spine in 2024, has long been a leader in motion preservation technologies of the spine, and a strong advocate of artificial disc replacements for appropriate patients. Having performed hundreds of these procedures over the years in both the Cervical and Lumbar Spine, recent technology advancements have provided Dr. Bradley a number of options to select the appropriate implant device for his patients based on their anatomy, and not simply rely on a “One Size Fits All” approach.
Traditional surgical intervention for the spine may include fusing spinal segments together, which permanently fuses two vertebral bodies, eliminating movement between them. A Total Disc Replacement (TDR) offers a surgical alternative to spinal fusions, where the damaged intervertebral disc is removed and replaced with an artificial implant. This technology works to relieve pain in patients suffering from a degenerated spinal disc while enabling motion over the long term at the diseased spinal segment and reducing adjacent-level degeneration and re-operations.1 With Centinel Spine, the only United States provider of BOTH Cervical and Lumbar Total Disc Replacement devices, and their prodisc® line of implants (prodisc C, prodisc C Vivo, prodisc C SK, and prodisc L), Dr. Bradley now has multiple options to ensure the best possible outcomes for his patients.
“Centinel Spine is the only company with a device that can match different types of endplates,” stated Bradley. “Every patient’s anatomy is unique, and having the option of multiple implants allows me the ability to best fit each patient.”
Centinel Spine’s prodisc is the most studied total disc replacement technology in the world and has been validated with over 540 peer-reviewed published studies and over 275,000 implantations worldwide. It is the only TDR technology with multiple motion-preserving anatomic solutions, allowing the surgeon to Match-the-Disc™ to each patient’s anatomy for both cervical and lumbar total disc replacement.
The prodisc design incorporates prodisc CORE technology, the basis behind predictable clinical outcomes of the prodisc platform, and after 30 years has been demonstrated to be safe and effective.
In the Lumbar spine, the prodisc L system received one-level FDA approval in 2006 and since 2020 is the only total disc replacement device in the U.S. approved for two-level use in the lumbar spine. The addition of angled device endplate designs allow for implant optimization depending on the spinal level being operated on, as well as maximizing lateral bending and axial rotation. Recent expanded insurance coverage for Lumbar TDR with the prodisc L device has contributed to the patient’s ability to have this procedure.
Bradley went on to say, “While the majority of my patients can return to an active lifestyle through conservative, nonsurgical methods, a small percentage of them require surgical intervention. This minimally invasive procedure has allowed my appropriate patient candidates the opportunity to maintain motion in the affected segment with excellent long-term results.”
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1 Janssen ME, et al, prodisc C Total Disc Replacement Versus ACDF for Single-Level Symptomatic Cervical Disc Disease, JBJS, 2015, 97:1738-47.
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