KIC Ventures, inventor of the global movement in LESS Exposure Spine Surgery (LESS™) and a leader in interventional spine surgery innovation, announced the release of VertiFix, a breakthrough technology designed to address a critical and growing challenge facing interventional pain management (IPM) physicians: the safe removal of failed or improperly placed interspinous process implants while preserving the spinous processes.

Following widespread implantation of various interspinous process devices, such as Boston Scientific Vertiflex Superion device, the industry is now seeing an increasing number of revision cases attributed to poor placement, suboptimal patient selection, or disease progression—factors that ultimately contributed to the device’s recall. While Vertiflex offered value for patients with mild spinal stenosis, physicians are now confronting a harsh reality: removal is often extremely difficult—and sometimes nearly impossible—without causing significant anatomical damage.