The Bone Healing Solution

Healing Bones. Healing Lives.

Orthofix bone growth stimulator devices have been prescribed for over 40 years, helping over 1 million patients overcome their bone healing challenges.

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Spinal Fusion Therapy

Orthofix Bone Growth Therapy devices used in spinal applications are designed to enhance bone growth and the success rate of certain spinal fusions by stimulating the body’s own natural healing mechanism post-surgically.

Spinal fusion surgery involves using bone graft in order to fuse two vertebral bodies together into a single, solid bone. Bone graft can be harvested from cadaver bone (allograft), taken from the patient’s hip bone during the fusion surgery (autograft), or manufactured (synthetic bone graft). Metal plates, rods or screws can also be used to help hold the vertebrae together.

There are many reasons for spine fusion surgery. Some common causes are vertebral fractures, deformity correction, elimination of pain from motion, treatment of instability, degenerative disc disease, spondylolisthesis, spinal stenosis, tumors, and treatment of some disc herniations.

Bone Growth Therapy was initially used to stimulate the natural healing process in long bone fractures. The treatment proved so successful that scientists studied its effectiveness in healing spinal fusions. The results showed that, when bone growth therapy is used following spinal surgery in high-risk patients, fusion success can be increased when compared to surgery without the treatment.

#1 Prescribed Bone Growth Stimulator

PEMF technology approved since 1986

Over 1,000,000 prescribed devices

Statistically significant results for patients who smoke or have a multi-level fusion^3,4

Pulsed Electromagnetic Field noninvasive spinal fusion therapy enhances bone growth and demonstrates statistical significance improves interbody fusion healing.

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92% clinical success¹

Improves spinal fusion rates by 36%^1,2

Works effectively when worn over clothing or bracing

Cordless design enables you to keep moving while healing

How SpinalStim Works

The SpinalStim™ device is a single piece that is lightweight, flexible, and portable, allowing freedom of movement during treatment. An LCD and an audible alarm provide important feedback during treatment such as the operational status, treatment time remaining, battery capacity, and when paired with STIM onTrack™ patient mobile-app recovery is designed for success.

Common Surgical Procedures for our Devices

ACDF: An anterior cervical discectomy and fusion surgery is done for symptomatic cervical disc problems, most commonly for a cervical herniated disc. It can also be done to address problems from degenerative disc disease, spinal stenosis and/or osteoarthritis in the cervical spine. For example, during the ACDF surgery, osteophytes (bones spurs) and any extra disc material associated with those conditions may also be removed.

PLIF: Posterior lumbar interbody fusion is a spinal fusion surgical approach to fuse the disc space of the spine through entering from the back of the body. An incision is made at the midline of the back and the left and right erector spinae muscles are stripped of the lamina of the affected vertebrae to allow access to the nerve roots.

ALIF: Anterior lumbar interbody fusion is a type of back surgery used to fuse the disc space of the spine through entering the front of the body through the abdomen. In an ALIF, an incision is made on the left side of the abdomen and the abdominal contents and muscles are pulled to the side to allow access to the front of the spine.

TLIF: Transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion is a form of spine fusion surgery in which the lumbar disc space is fused from a posterior approach outside of the facet joint. The surgical procedure involves removing a disc from between two vertebrae and fusing the vertebrae together.

XLIF: Extreme lateral interbody fusion is a minimally invasive surgical procedure that fuses two levels of the spine using an approach from the side of the lower back. The surgery typically involves the removal of the spinal disc and placement of an interbody cage filled with bone graft in the disc space. The treated segments are then secured with fusion instrumentation, such as pedicle screws and rods.

Pulsed Electromagnetic Field noninvasive cervical spinal fusion therapy enhances bone growth and increases the probability of fusion success.

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84% clinical success ³

Improves cervical fusion rates by 22% ⁴

Works effectively when worn over clothing or bracing

Cordless design enables you to keep moving while healing

How CervicalStim Works

The ONLY bone growth stimulation device FDA approved to improve cervical fusions.^3,4

The CervicalStim™ device is a single piece that is lightweight, flexible, and portable, allowing freedom of movement during treatment. An LCD and an audible alarm provide important feedback during treatment such as the operational status, treatment time remaining, battery capacity, and when paired with STIM onTrack™ patient mobile-app recovery is designed for success.

Connecting Patients and Physicians During the Healing Process

Orthofix DIRECT™ and the STIM onTrack™ mobile application uses advanced, innovative technology to connect physicians and patients when using bone healing solutions, regardless of where they are located.

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Trusted Technology

Easy to Navigate Features

Centralized Support for Patients Treating with a Bone Growth Therapy device

Take an Active Role in the Recovery Process

Featuring daily treatment reminders and device usage calendars to help patients stay on schedule with their treatments.
Enabling the sharing of treatment data and patient reported outcome measure questionnaire (PROM) responses with physicians to assist in understanding your current treatment progress and overall recovery status.**
Providing links to educational patient resources and connecting patients with our Patient Care team to help ensure patients understand their treatment regimens.
**Information collected via the STIM onTrack mobile app is not intended for the diagnosis of diseases or other conditions, or the cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease.

References:

PMA P850007/S6. February 1990.
Mooney V. Pulsed electromagnetic fields: an adjunct to interbody spinal fusion surgery in the high risk patient. Surg Technol Int 1993, 2:405-410.
PMA P030034. December 2004.
Foley K, et al. Randomized, prospective, and controlled clinical trial of pulsed electromagnetic field stimulation for cervical fusion. The Spine Journal. 2008 May/June;8:436-442.