2019 Winners

This annual award rewards inventors, engineering teams, surgeons and their companies who’ve created the most innovative, enduring and practical products in 2018 to treat back care. To win the Orthopedics This Week Best New Technology Award for spine care, a new technology must meet the following criteria:

Be creative and innovative.
Bring long term significance to treating spine pathologies. Does this technology have staying power?
Solve a current clinical problem.
Improve standard of care
Is cost effective
I would use it.

Our expert panel scores every submission on a scale of 1 to 5 (5 being the highest score) for each of the above criteria.

A record 41 technologies were submitted for the 2019 BEST SPINE TECHNOLOGY award. We offer our thanks and deep appreciation to the engineering teams, surgeon inventors and companies for submitting their best ideas this year.

COMPANY & PRODUCT		WEBSITE
A-Line Orthopaedics Corp. Edge Upper Cervical System™
Camber Spine ENZA-C™		www.cambermedtech.com
ControlRad ControlRad™ Trace™		www.controlrad.com
icotec Medical, Inc. Vader® One MIS/Open Carbon/PEEK Tumor Spine Screw		www.icotech-medical.com
joimax, Inc. Intracs®		www.joimax.com
LifeNet Health PliaFX®		www.lifenethealth.org
NuVasive, Inc. LessRay™		www.nuvasive.com
Reflexion Health VERA (Virtual Exercise Rehabilation Assistant)		www.reflexionhealth.com
Saluda Medical Evoke® ECAP-Controlled, Closed-Loop Spinal Cord Stimulation (SCS) System		www.saludamedical.com
TDI (Tissue Differentiation Intelligence) SonoVision™		www.tissueintel.com
Vivex Biologics VIA Disc Matrix™		www.vivex.com