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.) 

 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.

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

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 ...

Peter Kohlbecher, Director, Sales & Marketing of Joline GMBH - Quattroplasty: a novel four balloon technique for reducing vertebral compression fractures

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 ...

Alexa Tulaszewski of Telos: Processing fresh bone allografts using femoral heads derived from surgical living donors

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.

Over the next few days, the SmartTRAK blog will feature video interviews from DKOU highlighting new companies and products emerging from Europe. Yesterday we featured Christian Calame of Naviswiss: Handheld, miniaturized navigation technology for computer-assisted orthopedic surgery

Next up ...

Florian Junker, Managing Director at BoneHelix: Corkscrew-shaped intramedullary rod for fixation of long bone fractures

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.

Over the next week, the SmartTRAK blog will feature video interviews from DKOU highlighting new companies and products emerging from Europe. First up ...

Christian Calame of Naviswiss: Handheld, miniaturized navigation technology for computer-assisted orthopedic surgery

SmartTRAK was cited by the Wall Street Journal on Nov. 12, 2017 in an article by Laura Johannes, "Ankle Replacements Take Off as Devices Appear Durable."  The article is part of the Journal Reports Retirement series, and states that ankle replacements are growing in popularity as doctors gain confidence that the implants will last.

Closed-Loop Spinal Cord Stim: The Next Big Thing?

With impressive preliminary data from Saluda Medical’s AVALON trial, and all the big players working on evoked potentials, will closed-loop spinal cord stimulation (#SCS) be the next big thing?