The starting point for cortical screws.
What is the pars?
In a sheep study IdentiTi demonstrated X times faster bone growth vs.
What is 2x faster bone growth?
Who defined the TLIF procedure? (first and last)
Who is Dr. Juergen Harms?
What is the L5 nerve root and what is a spondylolysis?
Name this common surgical instrument
What is a Leksell rongeur?
Large tooth like bone in the cervical spine
What is the dens or odontoid process?
SafeOp monitors SSEPs by stimulating ____ and recording ____
What are "stimulate distally and records proximally?"
The first spinal surgery ever performed
What is a laminectomy?
Name the film, view and type of vertebral body
What is an axial CT of a lumbar vertebral body?
When a vertebra completely displaces over the one below it
What is spondyloptosis?
Muscle groups innervated by a single spinal nerve level
What are myotomes?
The maximum amount of coronal bend for both PTP and LTP Patient Positioners.
What is approx. 25 degrees in each direction (PTP) and 15 degrees (LTP)
A form of decompression therapy that relieves pressure on the spine can be traced by to almost 3500 B.C
What is Spinal Traction?
What is Sacral Iliac Joint and Ilium?
Abnormal changes in the bone marrow of the vertebral endplates, which are visible on an MRI scan, and are often associated with low back pain, typically linked to degenerative disc disease
Modic Changes
Small ___ in the ___ in the cervical spine provide a passageway for ____ to carry blood to the ____
What is... Small foramina in the transverse processes in the cervical spine provide a passageway for arteries to carry blood to the brain?
This product contains all 3 essential components of bone remodeling
What is AlphaGraft Cellular Bone Matrix?
What is an ALIF with Centinel Spines interfixated device?
Define the film, levels of stabilization, and the fixation system used.
What are radiographs, L4-S1 and Medtronic PEEK Rod System?
relating to illness caused by medical examination or treatment vs relating to or denoting any disease or condition which arises spontaneously or the cause is unknown
What is iatrogenic vs. idiopathic?
The longest nerve in the body
What is the saphenous nerve?
Invictus TL + OCT is cleared for use with this computer assisted image guidance system when paired as this screw system
What are Medtronics Stealth OARM and Solera?
A versatile and side loading modular hook-and-screw system for translation (reducing the spine to the rod) correction emerged in the 1990s (name and company)
What was USS universal spine system and who is Depuy Synthes?
Define the red area and procedure that uses it as a guide for access
What is Kambins triangle and TLIF?
Scoliosis is derived from the Greek word meaning
What is crooked?
Weight bearing bone of the hip
What is the acetabular sourcil?
All of the ATEC's commercially/alpha launched expandable interbody systems
Calibrate PSX, LTX, CCX, Ascend TL VBR, Ascend C VBR
British surgeon and scientist pioneered antiseptic surgery and preventative medicine
Who is Dr. Joseph Lister?
Define the anomaly and what it causes
What is a hemi vertebral body and congenital scoliosis?
Number of patient scans EOS can complete in 1 day
What are 150 scans?