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Vertebral Augmentation Resources

Below are a variety of resources that you may find useful, including helpful educational materials for use when speaking with your patients about VCFs and their treatment options.

Additional Resources

Market Your Practice

Stryker offers a variety of marketing resources specifically designed to help grow your practice and create awareness within the local medical community about the life-changing benefits of vertebroplasty.

Contact your Stryker sales representative to learn more about how to partner with Stryker and expand your reach.

Online Physician Locator

List your practice on our online physician locator found on this site as well as on our consumer-focused website, HelpingBacks.com. The locator helps referring physicians and patients and/or their caregivers get connected to you and your practice.

Sign up online or by using the Online Physician Locator Form (348 KB, PDF).

Indications For Use

The Stryker iVAS Inflatable Vertebral Augmentation System is intended to be used for the reduction of fractures and/or creation of a void in cancellous bone in the spine. This includes use during percutaneous vertebral augmentation.[1]

The system is to be used with cleared spinal Polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) bone cements indicated for use during percutaneous vertebral augmentation procedures, such as kyphoplasty.[1]

Contraindications

  • Instability of posterior wall and/or pedicles
  • Infection
  • Severe bleeding
  • Known allergies to bone cement
  • Pregnancy
  • Fractures in which more than 68% of vertebral height is lost

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