2021 Winners

This annual award rewards inventors, engineering teams, surgeons and their companies who’ve created the most innovative, enduring and practical products in 2021 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 number of technologies were submitted for the 2021 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
Carlsmed, Inc. aprevo™		https://carlsmed.com/
Centinel Spine, LLC prodisc L Inferior Angled Endplates		https://www.centinelspine.com
DisCure Medical DisCure System
Dymicron Triadyme-C Cervical Artificial Disc		https://dymicron.com/triadyme
Globus Medical, Inc. Excelsius 3D™		www.globusmedical.com
icotec Medical, Inc. Cervical Plate icotec		www.icotec-medical.com
Misonix, Inc. (Acquired by Bioventus) PrepFx Powered by neXus; Ultrasonic Disc Preparaiton		www.bioventus.com/misonix/
PrecisionOS Technology Multiuser virtual surgical training and education for scoliosis		www.precisionostech.com/
Sectra SECTRA IMA^{^®}		www.medical.sectra.com
TheraCell, Inc. TheraFuze DBF^® Fiber Anchor™		www.theracellinc.com/