NuVasive, Inc. is a medical devices company based in San Diego, California. The company primarily develops medical devices and procedures for minimally invasive spine surgery. NuVasive's products include software systems for surgical planning and monitoring, access instruments, and implantable hardware. Conditions that NuVasive products help treat are: degenerative disc disease, lumbar spinal stenosis, degenerative spondylolisthesis, cervical disc degeneration, early onset scoliosis, and limb length discrepancy. In the United States and internationally, most of NuVasive's products are marketed directly to doctors, hospitals, and other healthcare facilities. They focus on integrated systems for their surgeon partners.

Business segments

NuVasive has three business segments: Spine, Orthopedics (NuVasive Specialized Orthopedics), and Neuromonitoring (NuVasive Clinical Services).

History

NuVasive incorporated on July 21, 1997, as a medical device company in San Diego, California. The NuVasive approach to Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) was a new surgical platform called Maximum Access Surgery (MAS). The flagship procedure is the XLIF (eXtreme Lateral Interbody Fusion) procedure, a minimally disruptive procedure that allows spine surgeons to have direct access to the intervertebral space from the side of the body, as opposed to the front or back. Their patient support division is called The Better Way Back. NuVasive acquired the LessRay product from SafeRay Spine and launched the product in 2018 as a

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images. They provide medical equipment, surgical support, and necessary funds to those in need of spine surgery around the world through the NuVasive Spine Foundation.

Corporate governance

As of 2021, members of the board of directors of NuVasive are: * Chris Barry * Vickie Capps * John DeFord * Robert Friel * Scott Huennekens * Siddhartha Kadia * Leslie Norwalk *Amy Belt Raimundo * Donald Rosenberg * Daniel Wolterman

Recent acquisitions

In 2016, Biotronic NeuroNetwork and Ellipse Technologies were acquired by NuVasive. In 2017, Vertera Spine and SafePassage were acquired by NuVasive. In 2021, NuVasive acquired Simplify Medical.

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