The most important beneficiaries of this service will be obviously the patients:
- It can help improve the quality of life, since the implant can be better adapted to their pathology.
- It will reduce the number of re-operations, by providing objective information to the surgeon.
- It can minimise/optimise the surgical time of the operation and the hospital stay.
Advantages for orthopaedic surgeons
Nowadays, the selection of appropriate spine implant configurations is difficult for a spine surgery due to continuous modification by manufacturers, differences between products offered by different manufacturers or subjectivity of clinical criteria.
A biomechanical pre-operational planning tool will reduce the number of failures and consequently the associated risks and expenses.
Main advantages of this service are:
- To be able to accomplish a better preoperative planning, working with new techniques that allow them to evaluate fast and safely what type of spine implant and which configuration are the most adequate for each patient and injury from a biomechanical point of view.
- To reduce the failures risk due to the spine implants, since the load that the implant will have to support once implanted will have been studied previously.
- To gain access to an easy-to-use on-line tool that manages historic simulation files, clinical showcases, interesting articles, rigorous discussions with the scientific community, etc.
Advantages for implant manufacturing companies
Simulations with validated models can help explain the present reality and foresee the most likely future outcomes. This tool is especially designed for implant manufacturers since it holds one of the most reliable, precise and validated biomechanical models of the lower spine.
Main advantages of this service are:
- To reduce the time in developing new spine implants.
- To obtain more reliable spine implants, which will require less laboratory tests to check their correct mechanical behaviour.
- To reduce manufacturing costs, developing more competitive products.
- Manufacturers can promote their products by sponsoring the use of this service to selected surgeons, restricting simulations to the own company’s their own catalogue.
