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Dr. Daniel Park debuts ActivL disc in the Midwest
Daniel Park, MD, performed the first case in the Midwest using the ActiveL artificial disc, he said in an April 21 LinkedIn post.
The ActivL lumbar artificial disc rejoined the U.S. market under Highridge Medical in February.
Dr. Park is a spine surgeon at Midwest Orthopedics at Rush in Chicago.
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Why endoscopic spine surgery may top out at 40% adoption
When Daniel Park, MD, began learning endoscopic spine surgery nearly a decade ago, the surgeons coming up behind him barely knew what to make of it. Fellowship applicants would hear “endoscopic” and think arthroscopy. Many had little interest in learning it.
Today, they are requesting it. Fellowship applicants now want to know whether endoscopy is part of the curriculum and whether they will have exposure to it, Dr. Park told Becker’s.
For Dr. Park, a professor of orthopedic spine surgery at Rush Medical College and spine surgeon at Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush in Chicago, that shift carries more weight than the crowds that have gathered around endoscopy demonstrations at spine meetings for years. Those surgeons could have been curious. Today’s trainees are deciding what they want to learn.
Prof. Daniel Park highlights benefits of biportal endoscopic spine surgery
Daniel Park, MD, director of minimally invasive orthopedic spine surgery at Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak (Mich.), has been using a new technique in his practice called biportal endoscopic spine surgery.
BESS, a recent addition to the minimally invasive spine space, can be used to treat a variety of spinal conditions, including herniated discs, lumbar spinal stenosis and lumbar interbody fusions.
Do You Really Need That Back Surgery?
Patients and their families presented with the prospect of back surgery should ask lots of questions, according to experts in the field. The approach to easing back pain depends upon the source, the severity, the persistence and the trajectory of the pain.
Surgery is the only option for spinal stenosis patients who have lost control over their bowel or bladder, according to Prof. Daniel Park, a Michigan surgeon and spine editor of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons’ OrthoInfo website. The goal of such surgery is to free up the nerve so blood flow will improve and the nerve itself might return to some level of function, Park said.