Resources

Here are a variety of resources that you may find useful, including helpful educational materials for use when speaking with your patients about discography.

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

Patient selection criteria should include:

Suspected violation to the integrity of the annular wall of the disc.
Paresthetic discomfort in an equivocal dermatomal distribution.
Uncertain diagnosis of the extent of disc degeneration.
Patient demonstrates possible neurological findings consistent with nerve root compression: wasting, weakness, sensory alteration, reflex alteration.
A positive CT or MRI showing single or multiple herniations at a location inconsistent with clinical findings.

Contraindications

The Discmonitor is not intended for patients who present the following clinical and radiological findings:

Radiological evidence of severe lateral recess stenosis, calcified disc herniations, severe degenerative facet disease, and ligamentum flavum hypertrophy.
Radiological evidence of free or extruded disc fragments within the spinal canal.
Clinical evidence of significant progressive neurological deficits and/or cauda equina syndrome.
The existence of other pathologies, such as fracture, tumor, pregnancy, sensitivity to contrast agent or other conditions that could place the patient at risk.
General anesthesia is contraindicated.

The Discmonitor is not intended for procedures that require pressures greater than 120 psi [827 kPa].

Downloads

Discmonitor Product Brochure (722 KB, PDF)
Discmonitor Operative Technique Guide (2 MB, PDF)
Discmonitor Patient Brochure (341 KB, PDF)