Here are four points:
1. The clinical study is evaluating long-term fusion and pain reduction in patients receiving SImmetry Sacroiliac Joint Fusion.
2. The 40-site study will involve 250 patients.
3. Antoine G. Tohmeh, MD, performed the clinical study’s first procedures at Deaconess Hospital in Spokane, Wash.
4. Zyga will present at the 2016 International Society for the Advancement of Spine Surgery meeting in Las Vegas in April.
“Minimally invasive SI joint fusion procedures are rapidly gaining acceptance within the medical community, but it is important that the technology gives patients the best opportunity for long-term relief,” said Dr. Tohmeh.
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