Host: Mark Nolan Hill, MD

Guest: Clifford Tribus, MD

X-Stop, a ruuner up in the 2007 Wall Street Journal Technology Awards for best medical devices is an innovative implantable device to relieve pain in patients with spinal stenosis. In this segment Dr. Cliff Tribus shares his experience implanting the X-Stop. He discusses which patients benefit most from X-Stop and how it helps them. He also speaks about the concept of stenosis being a threshold disease and considers the role of a physician in helping to manage the pain threshold.