CASE STUDY

Development of a Spinal Nucleus Replacement Device

#MaterialTesting #MedTech #Implants

Our clients from the medical device industry face important R&D challenges early on. Specifically, our client developing implant designs approached us with several considerations, one of them being the material behaviour of the final product.  Does it withstand physiological loading?  Can it imitate the native tissue?  Will it last?

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Through our access to the Spinal Implant Test Suite at Imperial College London we performed a series of material tests to characterise different hydrogel formulations as possible replacements for the spinal nucleus pulposus. ​