Project Overview

Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery is becoming more commonplace as the technology becomes available to provide this care. However, there is minimal opportunity in spine surgery residency training (neurosurgery and orthopedics) because the tools that are used for these procedures are significantly different from the standard procedures performed today. There is a need for a low cost simulation environment to be developed to provide spine surgery trainees with a practice and training space to develop the fundamental scope handling and manipulation skills necessary to perform minimally invasive endoscope based surgical treatments.

Ideally, this would be developed as an open source platform that could be built with simple materials any where in the world to allow spine surgeons to advance there skills and improve patient care wherever they may be located.

Team Picture

Files

• Final Report (including PDS) (December 12, 2018)
• 12/07/2018 Presentation Poster (December 7, 2018)
• Preliminary Report (October 18, 2018)
• Preliminary Presentation (October 4, 2018)
• Preliminary Product Design Specifications (October 2, 2018)

Contact Information

Team Members

• Shannon Sullivan - Team Leader
• Madison Hodgson - Co-Communicator
• Sophia Nehs - Co-Communicator
• Katarina Martinet - BSAC
• Austin Gavigan - BWIG
• Yoon Cho - BPAG

Advisor and Client

• Prof. Walter Block - Advisor
• Dr. Nathaniel Brooks - Client