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Treatment for Back Pain Uses Medtronic Device, Genetic Engineering.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, December, 2002
By Jennifer L. Boen, The News-Sentinel, Fort Wayne, Ind. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Dec. 12--Last February, John Ormiston, 38, lifted a tire off the ground and felt a twinge in his back.
"Then I got bad back pain and it never went away. I had achy legs and soreness. Sometimes my feet would tingle and go to sleep. My legs were so bad I could only be up and around for a few hours at a time," he said.
Ten weeks ago, Ormiston had surgery where a recently approved FDA procedure was used to remedy bulging discs in his lower back.
Called the INFUSE bone graft, the procedure uses a genetically engineered human protein, called rhBMP-2, that causes bone growth. The protein is placed in a sponge that is put inside a titanium,...
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