Title: The Expanding Role of Personalization, Automation, and AM in Spine Surgery
Summary: This session explores how personalized treatment, enabled by additive manufacturing and automation, is transforming spine surgery by improving clinical outcomes, increasing surgical efficiency, and expanding market opportunities.
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Description: Spine surgery is entering a new phase in which personalization is becoming central to clinical success. Customized approaches align surgical tools with an individual’s unique anatomy to improve surgical precision, reduce complications, and shorten recovery times. For surgeons, such solutions can decrease time in the operating room, ease cognitive load, and reduce the need for revisions. For additive manufacturing, medical device companies (MDCs), and hospitals, personalized spine surgery is more than a procedural trend. It represents a growing market supported by technological innovation. The U.S. spine surgery market is valued at $4.86B in 2023 and projected to reach $6.8B by 2031 (~4.2% CAGR). It is influenced by aging demographics, growing demand for minimally invasive procedures, and advances in surgical tools, automation, and manufacturing. This session will explore how and why certain MDCs and hospitals have implemented personalized tools in spinal surgery. With advanced 3D modeling software and AI-enabled tools, clinical engineers convert medical imaging data into detailed anatomical models that allow for pre-operative planning and customized device design. Additive manufacturing then brings these plans to life, with on-demand printing of anatomical models as well as custom-fit implants and surgical guides. Attendees will gain insight into current clinical activity and evidence surrounding personalization in spinal surgery. Attendees will also explore the key technologies behind the growth of personalization, as well as potential for future integration into workflows to advance clinical practice and market adoption.
Adoption Stage: Adoption
Learning Objectives:
Analyze clinical evidence, including case studies of personalized spinal implants, to assess the impact of custom anatomical matching on surgical precision and clinical outcomes.
Evaluate how emerging technologies can be integrated into workflows to improve efficiency, accuracy, and patient-specific solutions.
Understand how additive manufacturing enables on-demand production of custom implants and instruments.
