Thursday, 12 January 2017

Tifton surgeon Dr. Mac Sims invents medical device

TIFTON — Tifton orthopedic spine specialist Dr. Macintosh Sims has designed a gadget intended to permit him and his kindred authorities from around the globe the capacity to treat a typical spine condition all the more viably and with less intrusive surgery.

The Syzygy Stabilization System is utilized as a part of the surgical treatment of spondylolisthesis, a deformity that causes part of the spine to slip to the other side of the body, for the most part happening in the lower or lumbar area of the spine.

A board-affirmed orthopedic spine specialist who hones with Optim Orthopedics and performs surgeries at Tift Regional Medical Center, Sims said he has for quite some time been occupied with figuring out how to accomplish more powerful mechanical arrangement of the spine.

"I try to consistently enhance execution and drive clinically-demonstrated care," said Sims. "I have been building up this idea, gadget and framework for a long time. The objective for patients is lessened post-agent torment, a faster recuperation period and better results."

Working in association with Amendia, the screw-and-pole framework was licensed and gotten Food and Drug Administration endorsement prior this year for discharge in the spinal surgery advertise. A formal dispatch is planned for not long from now at the yearly North American Spine Society meeting in Boston.

"In cosmology, syzygy is the arrangement of three heavenly protests, for example, the sun, earth and moon or a planet," said Sims. "This name was chosen since it mirrors the capacity of specialists to adjust three vertebral segments of the spine."

Spondylolisthesis makes vertebrae bone pack nerve roots, Sims clarified, bringing about back agony, deadness or shortcoming in one or both legs. In uncommon, more genuine cases, it can likewise affect bladder or inside control.

The Syzygy System maneuvers the bone again into its appropriate position not at all like some other strategy or item, Sims said.

A Tifton local, Sims earned his restorative degree from the Mercer University School of Medicine in Macon. He took after with a residency at the Medical College of Georgia and finished a cooperation at the Spine Education and Research Institute in Denver.

Sims is affirmed by the American Board of Orthopedic Surgery and is an individual from the TRMC restorative staff. Optim Orthopedics is situated at 1622 Madison Ave. in Tifton.

For more data, call (229) 387-8061.

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