VerteGlide™ is a unique guided growth treatment option for skeletally immature patients with progressive scoliosis. This intuitive technique involves a sliding screw construct to allow for patients to grow at their own natural pace. This intuitive technique involves a sliding screw construct to allow for patients to grow at their own natural pace.
VerteGlide is a guided growth technology designed for children with Early Onset Scoliosis, a severe and sometimes life-threatening condition affecting kids under the age of 10, who often suffer from pulmonary and digestive dysfunction because of the deformity. VerteGlide represents the second in a series of technologies OrthoPediatrics is developing to address the challenges of this special group of children suffering from debilitating and life-threatening consequences of Early Onset Scoliosis. With its unique design, the VerteGlide Spinal Growth Guidance System is designed to allow for deformity correction and minimize repeat surgeries needed until skeletal maturity.
VerteGlide Spinal Growth Guidance System made possible with Shilla™ technology licensed from Medtronic
About OrthoPediatrics Corp.
Founded in 2006, OrthoPediatrics is an orthopedic company focused exclusively on advancing the field of pediatric orthopedics. As such it has developed the most comprehensive product offering to the pediatric orthopedic market to improve the lives of children with orthopedic conditions. OrthoPediatrics currently markets 80 products that serve three of the largest categories within the pediatric orthopedic market. This product offering spans trauma and deformity, scoliosis, and sports medicine/other procedures. OrthoPediatrics’ global sales organization is focused exclusively on pediatric orthopedics and distributes its products in the United States and over 70 countries outside the United States. For more information, please visit www.orthopediatrics.com