METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING THERAPEUTIC PROCEDURES IN THE SPINE
First Claim
1. A method for correcting a deformity in the spine, the method comprising:
- aligning vertebral bodies to correct a spinal deformity;
accessing an anterior sacral position of a sacral vertebral body;
from the accessed sacral position, boring a trans-sacral bore through or into one or more cephalad vertebra; and
advancing a spinal implant into the trans-sacral bore.
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Abstract
Methods for correcting a deformit in the spine by forming a trans-sacral axial instrumentation/fusion axial bore through vertebral bodies in general alignment with a visualized, anterior axial instrumentation/fusion line in a minimally invasive, low trauma, manner and providing a therapy to the spine employing the axial bore. Curved or relatively straight anterior axial bores are formed from the anterior starting positions. The therapies performed through the axial bores include discoscopy, full and partial discectomy, vertebroplasty, balloon-assisted vertebroplasty, drug delivery, electrical stimulation and various forms of spinal disc cavity augmentation, spinal disc replacement, fusion of spinal motion segments and implantation of radioactive seeds. Axial spinal implants and bone growth materials can be placed into single or multiple parallel or diverging TASIF axial bores to fuse two or more vertebrae, or distract or shock absorb two or more vertebrae.
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1. A method for correcting a deformity in the spine, the method comprising:
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aligning vertebral bodies to correct a spinal deformity; accessing an anterior sacral position of a sacral vertebral body; from the accessed sacral position, boring a trans-sacral bore through or into one or more cephalad vertebra; and advancing a spinal implant into the trans-sacral bore. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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