Rick Sasso, MD

In August, Indiana Spine Group sponsored a medical education conference/symposium for physicians and other health care practitioners.  At this conference, one of the topics I spoke on was What is on the Horizon?  In this talk, I discussed some of the latest spine surgery developments currently available, in FDA-trials or under development. 

One of the things I discussed was the results of a research project on spinal kinematics related to lumbar and cervical artificial disc replacement.  Generally speaking kinematics – is the study of motion. 

The purpose of this study was to study the kinematics of the cervical spine and lumbar spine – then how it relates to the motion of the artificial discs that are being used in spine surgery for cervical artificial disc replacements or lumbar artificial disc replacements.   With this information, it provides spine surgeons more information as they work with their spine surgical patients that require cervical artificial discs or lumbar artificial discs to help them select the type of disc that best meets the patient’s needs. 

Here is a link to the article I co-wrote, Cervical Kinematics After Fusion and Bryan Disc Arthoplasty.