Spinal, Cranial, and Orthopedic Surgery
Therapies and procedures
Learn about therapies and procedures to support surgeons and their patients.
Discover a suite of navigation, imaging, guidance, planning, and AI technologies that enable you to perform more predictable procedures in the OR.
Learn about fiber-based bone grafts that assist in the formation of new bone by providing scaffolding, stimulating bone healing, or both to create permanent stabilization.
Balloon kyphoplasty (BKP) is a vertebral augmentation procedure that helps restore lost vertebral body height, stabilizes the fracture to help relieve pain.1
Radiofrequency ablation for bone tumors can help relieve pain caused by metastatic bone tumors in patients with cancer.2
1. Van Meirhaeghe J, Bastian L, Boonen S, et al. A randomized trial of balloon kyphoplasty and nonsurgical management for treating acute vertebral compression fractures: vertebral body kyphosis correction and surgical parameters. Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2013;38(12):971–983.
2. Levy J, David E, Hopkins T, et al. Radiofrequency ablation provides rapid and durable pain relief for the palliative treatment of lytic bone metastases independent of radiation therapy: Final results from the OsteoCool tumor ablation post-market study. Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol. 2023;46(5):600–609.
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