NASS News: ATEC Advances Lateral Sophistication

Alphatec (ATEC) will introduce its innovation to improve lateral surgery at this year’s North American Spine Society (NASS) annual meeting.
 
The company has applied knowledge from Prone TransPoas (PTP) and decades of lateral prowess to evolve the TransPoas (PTP) and orthogonal Midline ALIF approaches with novel tech to advance treatment of L3 through S1, the most commonly treated spine levels.
 
“Sophistication is in direct relation to the number of distinctions that are drawn to a subject, and for ATEC, our sophistication is lateral surgery,” asserted Pat Miles, chairman and CEO told the press. “We intend to be the standard bearer for lateral. By expanding its applications and innovating to improve outcomes regardless of position, ATEC is accelerating the shift toward less invasive spine care.”
 
Christopher Brown, M.D., Spine Surgeon and Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery and Orthopedic Surgery at Duke University, added, “What we started years ago has been improved with additional automated monitoring modalities as well as procedure-specific positioners and access systems. I prefer to address L3 to S1 anteriorly. I can now perform a streamlined procedure that couples ATEC LTP with the Midline ALIF approach to less invasively achieve the desired surgical goals without repositioning my patient.”
 
Vedat Deviren, M.D., Spine Surgeon and Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at UCSF Medical Center, commented, “Spine surgery is evolving. In the past, we addressed every pathology with the same procedure. Now, innovation is more often enabling the pathology to dictate the approach. PTP and LTP avail unprecedented, single-position optionality.”