Q317 Spine Market Recap: Softer Procedural Volumes – But Why?

The WW Spine Hardware Market (excluding biologics) was flat in Q317, driven by softer procedure volumes. But Why? SmartTRAK analyzes what’s behind the market slowdown.  

By Julianne Burns, Senior Analyst Spine 

Market Softening

The WW Spine Hardware market (excluding biologics) was flat in Q317. US Spine Hardware revenues were down very slightly and the US Fusion market was down according to the SmartTRAK Financial Dashboard.

Q317 Market Recap Biosurgery Hemostats & Sealants: Supply Chain Disruptions 

By Doug Devens, Senior Analyst Biosurgery

Surprisingly, the US market for Hemostats and Sealants was down vs Q217 and YoY, an anomaly from historic growth rates, primarily due to supply chain disruptions and softness in the thrombin hemostat segment.

Don Urbanowicz of Urbanowicz Consulting interviews John Pracyk, MD of DePuy Synthes, Adam Wollowick, MD of Stryker Spine, and Bob Kinsella of Kinsella Group regarding trends and transactions in the spine market in a pre-NASS panel discussion entitled “From the Operating Room to the OEM.”

Capital One, BioMedGPS and Kinsella Group sponsored a panel discussion prior to the 2017 NASS meeting covering a variety of topics. The discussion, featured in the excerpt below, focuses on “From the Operating Room to the OEM” with John Pracyk, MD, PhD, MBA, FAANS, FACS, Spine Franchise Medical Leader at DePuy Synthes; Adam Wollowick, MD, MBA, Senior Director of Business Development at Stryker Spine; Bob Kinsella, President of Kinsella Group; and Don Urbanowicz, Principal of Urbanowicz Consulting (Moderator).

Q317 Total Joints Market: More than the Usual SeasonalityMajor hurricanes in the US lead to softness in the quarter  

By Lisa Mahan, VP, Content Development, Ortho

The Imperfect Storms

Hurricanes Harvey and Irma disrupted procedures in the US during Q3 slowing growth beyond the typical seasonality. In the US, Q317 Total Joints Market growth was virtually flat YoY.

At the 2017 Orthopedic Summit (OSET) meeting in Las Vegas, Mark Foster, Trice Medical’s Chief Commercialization Officer and VP of Worldwide Sales, spoke with SmartTRAK's Kristina Meyer about the Company’s revolutionary new technology that is improving the way orthopedic injuries are diagnosed. Trice Medical’s newest product, mi-eye 2, is a fully disposable, integrated camera (the size of a 14-gauge needle) with plug-and-play technology that is FDA cleared to provide illumination and visualization during diagnostic and operative arthroscopic and endoscopic procedures. These procedures can be performed in the clinic setting and provide patients with immediate and definitive diagnoses while significantly reducing the overall cost to the healthcare system.

A transcript of SmartTRAK’s interview with Trice Medical is below, as is the video interview, recorded live at the 2017 OSET meeting: (11:27 min.) 

Leonardo Kapural, MD discusses interim results from SENZA-CAP in a SmartTRAK interview at ASRA 2017

At the recent American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine (ASRA)
annual meeting in Lake Buena Vista, FL, Leonardo Kapural, MD, professor of anesthesiology at Wake Forest University and principle investigator of the SENZA-RCT, presented interim three month results from SENZA-CAP, a multicenter feasibility study evaluating use of 10 kHz spinal cord stimulation (SCS) for the treatment of chronic abdominal pain (CAP). (See ASRA Poster 4491.)

In an interview at ASRA, SmartTRAK spoke to Dr. Kapural regarding key findings from this study, the addressable market for SCS in chronic abdominal pain, patient engagement as a potential variable, and what’s next for this research.

A transcript of SmartTRAK’s interview with Dr. Kapural is below. Or click on the following video to view the interview recorded live at ASRA 2017. (12:06 minutes.)

This year, we launched the SmartTRAK Blog, a new resource providing breaking medical device event coverage, previews of great SmartTRAK content and interviews with leaders in the medical device industry. The response has been terrific, and we'd like to share with you our Top 10 blog posts of 2017.

 SmartTRAK reviews hot topics from the fall Spine meetings and identifies bright spots in an otherwise soft Spine market.

As we look forward to Q4 and year-end results, a busy fall meeting season comes to a close. This year, industry and analysts alike looked eagerly to the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) and North American Spine Society (NASS) meetings in the hopes of nailing down some of the new, softer dynamics emerging in the Spine market. Q3 results seem to uphold the theory that the market is challenged, but bright spots remain as companies showcased myriad new interbody platforms and materials, and a few new robotics systems.

SmartTRAK's President & CEO Sharon O'Reilly attended DKOU2017, the German Congress of Orthopedic and Trauma Surgery, in Berlin Oct. 24-27, 2017 and uncovered several new and innovative orthopedic, trauma and spine technologies on the exhibit floor.

This week, the SmartTRAK blog is featuring video interviews from DKOU highlighting new companies and products emerging from Europe.

Next up ...

Leanna Caron, EVP & CCO and Dr. James Howe, Founder & CMO - AgNovos Healthcare: A minimally invasive injectable technique for stabilizing osteoporotic hips 

SmartTRAK is excited to attend Desert Foot 2017 on Nov-29 through Dec-2, 2017  at the Grand Sheraton, Phoenix AZ. Desert Foot is the Annual Multi-Disciplinary Diabetic Limb Salvage Conference which honors our Federal Services Healthcare Professionals.