Lumbar degenerative disc disease is a pathologic process that affects a large portion of our
aging population. In the recent past, surgical treatment has involved fusion procedures.
However, lumbar disc arthroplasty and replacement provides an alternative for carefully
selected patients. It provides the major advantage of motion preservation and thus keeps
adjacent segments from significantly progressive degeneration. The history of lumbar disc
replacement has roots that start in the 1960s with the implantation of stainless-steel balls …