Patent ID: 6558390
Filing Date: 2003-05-06
Classification: A61B,A61F,A61N,Y10S

Abstract:
A method for performing a therapeutic procedure on one or more of a series of vertebral bodies or an intervertebral spinal disc normally formed of a nucleus and annulus and separating adjacent vertebral bodies of a human spine, the method comprising:accessing an anterior sacral position of a sacral vertebral body; from the accessed anterior sacral position, forming a trans-sacral axial bore cephalad and axially through at least the caudal sacral vertebra and through or into one or more cephalad vertebral bodies of said series of adjacent vertebral bodies and through or into an intervertebral, spinal disc; and performing a therapeutic procedure in one or both of a vertebral body or spinal disc located within a human spine accessed through the trans-sacral axial bore.