DJO Global Rolls Out Series of New Products at AAOS

The staff of San Diego, Calif.-based DJO Global Inc. is leaving the sunny West Coast for snowy Chicago, Ill., and this year’s annual meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS), held March 19-23.

What’s on the agenda for DJO officials? It’s the release of a number of new surgical devices.

“We are excited to have a diverse group of products to launch at this year’s AAOS meeting,” said Bryan Monroe, senior vice president and general manager of DJO Surgical. “The products highlighted represent one of the broadest new product offerings in our history and we are pleased to present new products in each of our key business segments. These innovative products will allow our surgeon customers to greatly enhance the lives of their patients.”

Giving a whole new meaning to taking one’s vitamins, DJO is expanding its E-plus (which the company has branded “e+”) technology—a blended vitamin E polyethylene—throughout its product portfolio. The latest addition includes the first-ever—according to the company—blended vitamin E glenoid component for total shoulder arthroplasty. This option is now available with DJO’s Turon modular shoulder system. This Glenoid component adds to DJO’s E-plus 3D knee and Movation knee inserts as well as patellar components. E-plus was developed to lengthen the life of total joint replacements for active patients.

DJO’s E-plus implants are made with cross-linked polyethylene material, with vitamin E blended into the resin. This, according to the company, helps because vitamin E is an antioxidant that naturally occurs in the human body. The company also claims it helps to reduce long-term wear. In addition, DJO Surgical is introducing the Movation total knee system with E-plus technology.

DJO also will highlight educational opportunities it calls “Optimized Solutions for Direct Anterior Approach,” designed around the company’s of hip replacements. The “solutions” include the Linear dual-tapered hip stem and the Revelation microMAX anatomic hip stem with lateral flare technology.

Also on tap this week, DJO will showcase its new Trabecular Titanium acetabular system (the acetabulum is where the head of the femur meets with the pelvis), which is designed to provide an “aggressive fixation cup solution” for difficult primary or revision hip replacement scenarios. Trabecular Titanium cups are manufactured using an electron beam melting technology, which the company claims allows the porosity to be controlled and integral to the cup (not a coating). Trabecular Titanium has an extremely high friction coefficient at contact with cancellous bone, which maximizes primary stability of the acetabular component and enhances bone integration.

DJO Global makes medical devices for musculoskeletal and vascular health and pain management.

DJO Global is located in booth 3039 at AAOS.