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Dr. Jonathan Barnwell, a recipient of a 2009 grant from the Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation, is researching nerve regeneration under the mentorship of Zhongyu Li, M.D., Ph.D. Drs. Barnwell and Li comment on their work as their year together winds up.
Eric Major, CEO, K2M
Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe (WCAS)—the largest and most successful private equity firm focused on information/business services and health care—just laid a big bet on spine and selected the Virginia-based upstart K2M as its platform company. Smart money.
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Pricing pressures continue to affect spinal implant supplier revenues and we are, therefore, lowering our sales forecasts for spinal implant and instrumentation companies specifically. But not all companies were affected the same way. Read on for our company specific forecasts.
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The theme is not new, but the impact continues. Competitive pricing pressure noted by managements in virtually every manufacturer conference call is the main reason PearlDiver has lowered the 2010 spinal implant sales forecast.
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Eagle Condor Humanitarian and Innovasis, a spinal implant and device manufacturer are bringing treatments to villagers of Peru and changing villagers lives….and their own. Sometimes to get back to medical basics you have to travel.
Artist: Paula Swisher
Standards of quality, relevance and integrity in medical research are diminished by audience indifference, PowerPoint presentations and the passive voice. Beautiful evidence is hard won and not often found in today’s standard 10-minute flash card presentation. We have the antidote.
Jason Brewton, Director of Physical Therapy, Texas Back Institute, instructing a patient on a lumbar stabilization exercise
The postoperative phase of surgery is vital to the procedure’s success…and begins preoperatively. So say our experts, Dr. Carl Lauryssen, Dr. Stephen Hochschuler, and physical therapist Jason Brewton, who also detail what to tell patients.