The narrowing of one or more areas within your spine is known as spinal stenosis. When your spine is compressed, your spinal cord and the nerves that branch off it have less room to move around. Back pain and sciatica can result from the spinal cord or nerves become inflamed, compressed, or pinched due to a constricted space.
It usually takes time for spinal stenosis to develop. The "wear-and-tear" changes that generally occur in your spine with aging, such as osteoarthritis, are the main causes. As a result, even if specific alterations might be seen on X-rays or other imaging tests, if they are performed for another reason, you might not have any symptoms for a while. You may have pain, numbness, tingling, weakness, or all of these in your neck, back, arms, legs, hands, or feet, depending on where and how severe your spinal stenosis is.
The pain may be excruciating, but there is a solution for patients with Spinal Stenosis. Usually, the highly used treatment was considered Spinal Fusion. Spinal fusion is a surgical procedure to permanently fuse two or more spinal bones such that they can no longer move independently of one another. Although, the major drawback of this surgery is that spinal fusion surgery is fairly expensive and not affordable for everyone.
But you don't have to worry about it; the Premia Spine TOPS System device offers an alternative solution to spinal fusion surgery for patients with moderate to severe lumbar spinal stenosis, degenerative spondylolisthesis, and related spinal conditions. This device is way cheaper compared to the treatment of spinal fusion.
In order to reduce pain, the TOPS System replaces anatomical elements like the lamina or the facet joint that are removed from the vertebrae during spinal decompression therapy. Internal metal stoppers are the bone components that naturally serve as stoppers during axial rotation.
The supraspinous ligament, interspinous ligament, and ligamentum flavum are replaced by the boot and internal components in their capacity to aid in flexion control. The TOPS System is implanted using a conventional posterior surgical route and is secured to the spine with four regular polyaxial pedicle screws. Less force is applied to the screws by the TOPS unique crossbar arrangement than by fusion implant methods. In addition, TOPS can sustain forces that interspinous and intralaminar devices are unable to.
In a singular way, the TOPS System simulates motion in all directions, including flexion, extension, lateral bending, and axial rotation. Premia Spine's TOPS System has also been shown to produce exceptional results for the right patients. It has been clinically proven to offer instant and lasting pain relief and improvements in quality of life.
To treat spinal stenosis, the TOPS System offers three major benefits.
- The operation restores a controlled range of motion and stabilizes the posterior spine first.
- Second, patients restore their capacity for bending, flexing, walking, and taking part in daily activities.
- The third and most crucial benefit is that patients get rapid and long-lasting pain relief.
Since 2005, clinical trials have shown that the TOPS System helps patients with moderate to severe spinal stenosis, degenerative spondylolisthesis (a slipped disc), and facet arthrosis (bone spurs) relieve their chronic leg and low back pain.
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