The London Spine Unit : best recognised treatment clinic on Harley Street UKPublished articleThe ideal lumbar and cervical discs should provide six degrees of freedom and tri-planar (three-dimensional) motion. Although all artificial discs are intended to achieve the same goals, there is considerable heterogeneity in the design of lumbar and cervical implants. The “second generation total disc replacements” are non-articulating viscoelastic implants aiming at the reconstruction of physiologic levels of shock absorption and flexural stiffness. This review aims to give an overview of the…Cervical Disc Replacement Expert. Best Spinal Surgeon UKThe London Spine Unit is a specialist clinic for Cervical Disc Replacement as Day Surgery.
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Keywords: Cervical disc replacement; Cervical spine; Disc arthroplasty; Lumbar disc replacement; Lumbar spine; Total disc replacement; Viscoelastic.
The London Spine Unit : best recognised treatment clinic on Harley Street UKRead the original publication from Pubmed : Lumbar and cervical viscoelastic disc replacement: Concepts and current experience