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Dynamic stabilization may sound like an oxymoron, but the concept is driving compound annual growth of more than 50% over the next decade in a new segment of the spine industry. The US market for spinal motion preserving and nonfusion products was worth approximately $186 million in 2004, and is projected to reach more than $1.5 billion in the year 2009, according to "US Markets for Spinal Motion Preserving Devices," a report just published by Windhover/Medtech Insight.

Dynamic stabilization may sound like an oxymoron, but the concept is driving compound annual growth of more than 50% over the next decade in a new segment of the spine industry. The US market for spinal motion preserving and nonfusion products was worth approximately $186 million in 2004, and is projected to reach more than $1.5 billion in the year 2009, according to "US Markets for Spinal Motion PreservingDevices," a report just published by Windhover/Medtech Insight.

This hot market is all about chronic back pain and the degenerative disc disease that comes from trauma, or simply moving through life. In 2004, there were one million spine surgeries, in an environment where surgeries are largely reserved as the treatment of last resort. The conventional surgical alternative involves fusing together segments of the spine to stop the motion that causes pain, and it's not an ideal solution

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