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Axialif^® Technology

AxiaLIF^® Technology

AxiaLIF^®, The Least Invasive Solution to Lumbar Fusion

TranS1^® has pioneered a revolutionary approach to access the lumbar spine. The AxiaLIF^® (Axial Lumbar Interbody Fusion) System includes surgical instruments for creating a safe and reproducible pre-sacral access route to the L5 - S1 vertebral bodies. The AxiaLIF^® technique features novel instrumentation to enable standard of care fusion principles, distraction and stabilization of the anterior lumbar column while mitigating the soft tissue trauma associated with traditional lumbar fusion through open surgical incisions.

Using AxiaLIF^®, the lumbar spine is accessed through a percutaneous opening adjacent to the sacral bone. This atraumatic tissue plane alleviates the need for the surgeon to cut through soft tissues like muscles and ligaments, thus lessening patient pain and the likelihood of complications. This minimally invasive approach allows patients to be discharged from the hospital the day after surgery, and on average return to work in 15 days. This is a dramatic reduction in hospital lengths of stay, which can otherwise run three to four nights, followed by a one- to two-month recovery period before returning to work.*

AxiaLIF^®, combined with pedicle screws or facet screws, provides a completely percutaneous 360-degree fusion at L5-S1.

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* as presented at IMAST BANFF, July 2005.