A new report on the cervical disc surgery market shows how the procedure could evolve worldwide over the next five years.
Here are five key trends from the Persistence Market Research report:
1. While anterior cervical discectomy and fusion is the most common type of cervical disc surgery, there is a potential for more total artificial disc replacement procedures in the cervical spine.
2. Risks associated with total cervical disc replacement are nerve injury, bleeding, infection, difficulty breathing, failure to relieve symptoms and stroke.
3. However, total disc replacement also has benefits, including maintaining normal neck motion after surgery, eliminates bone graft, reduces adjacent segment degeneration and helps patients return to normal activity.
4. North America dominates the global cervical total disc replacement market, thanks in large part to a growing aging population.
5. The fastest-growing cervical total disc replacement markets are China and India in the Asia-Pacific region.