Here are 14 key notes on orthopedic and spine device companies over the past week.
Stryker reported net sales of the company grew 4.9 percent to $2.5 billion in Q1 2016.
Amedica signed an exclusive distribution agreement with Shandong Weigao Orthopedic Device Company.
Robert Ramsey, a clinical trial patient who underwent total disc replacement receiving the AxioMed Freedom Lumbar disc, completed the Boston Marathon on April 18.
Surgeons have performed more than 300 procedures using Inspired Spine's Oblique Lateral Lumbar Interbody Fusion technique.
One thousand procedures have now been performed using Hunter Medical's ElbowLOC Arm Positioning System.
A patient enrolled into InVivo Therapeutics' INSPIRE Study, focused on spinal cord injury patients, has died due to causes unrelated to the investigational product.
Life Spine confirmed the first clinical cases using the GRUVE Anterior Cervical Plate System.
Payam Moazzaz, MD, of Oceanside, Calif.-based Tri-City Medical Center, performed the 700th Mazor Robotics Renaissance spine surgery case at the hospital.
Ortho Kinematics received CE Mark approval for its Vertebral Motion Analysis product.
Robert A. Rovner, MD, a spine surgeon with Danville, Calif.-based Disc & Spine, is offering Paradigm Spine's coflex as an alternative treatment to spinal fusion for spinal stenosis.
SANUWAVE Health appointed A. Michael Stolarski to its board of directors.
SI-BONE published two-year results from a multicenter clinical trial showing its iFuse Implant System resulted in marked improvements in SI joint pain, disability and quality of life, which were maintained to two years.
SpinalCyte has published its discovery surrounding use of human dermal dibroblasts for regrowth and repair of the intervertebral disc in the Global Spine Journal.
William Tally, MD, was the first to inject Vivex Biomedical's MIAMI adult stem cells into a patient's dehydrated intervertebral discs.