UniLink

• Modular Customization: accommodates anatomical variation, insert material selection and surgical technique preferences, and allows assembly on the back table or in-situ.

• Spikes: Device’s spikes have a conical profile that is designed to maximize bony purchase and are engineered to increase stability over similar devices.

• Optional Inserts: PEEK-OPTIMA® Polymer or Titanium Alloy options which are available in 8-18mm sizes in 2mm increments. The elliptical design matches anatomy to promote graft loading, windowed design to accommodate graft material packing and the Bulleted shape helps to distract and indirectly decompress.

• Cross Bar Plate: available in 28, 32, 36, 40, and 55mm sizes. The Proprietary ramped cross bar allows provisional tightening which prevents separation and minimizes surgical fiddle factor.

• Locking Plate: available in 28, 32, 36, 40, and 55mm sizes. Star drive set screw designed to minimize stripping while providing secure locking and Accommodates 9° angled variation (“wag”) and allows independent compression for optimal fit.

• UniLink Graft: The UniLink Graft is a structural cortical allograft, available in multiple sizes for use with the UniLink orUniLink 5/1 Systems. 8-20mm sizes in 2mm increments and Allograft shaped to fit between interspinous processes with a low profile design to allow anterior graft placement while minimizing construct height.

About Interspinous Devices

Interspinous spacers sometimes also called as Interspinous process decompression systems, are the devices implanted between vertebral spinous processes. These spacers are made up of a very strong but lightweight metal (titanium) which is biocompatible in the human body. These devices are imbedded in body to confine painful motion else enabling normal motion and to treat lumbar spinal stenosis, discogenic low-back pain, facet syndrome, disc herniations, and non-traumatic instability. Lumbar spinal stenosis is a thinning of the spinal canal in the lower back which causes compression on nerves and it is developed gradually with age. Radiology tests are used to confirm a diagnosis of moderate degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis. People with lumbar spinal stenosis experience pain but may also have weakness in their leg, lower back and buttocks, numbness, tingling.
The Interspinous spacer are implanted between those vertebrae in such a way that it prevents the patient from bending too far backward which causes pain by surgical procedure. The procedure is very small and sometimes patient can go home within a day.The increasing prevalence of spinal stenosis due to aging, arthritis, heredity and increased demand of surgical procedures that improved lifestyle and comfort will drive the Interspinous spacer market. The adoption of spacers are increasing due to low complication rate as compared to decompression and spinal fusion. The Interspinous spacers are widely used in geriatric population as per Medicare data due to old age patient are not comfortable with surgery due to their health conditions. Source:Transparency Market Research (TMR)