Patients experiencing chronic back or leg pain? It could be aging instability.

What is Aging Instability?

Aging Instability, common in the aging spine, is a condition that occurs when degenerative changes in the segment cause the bony structures to no longer protect the neural elements. These changes can result in back and/or leg pain.

What is Aging Instability?

Aging Instability, common in the aging spine, is a condition that occurs when degenerative changes in the segment cause the bony structures to no longer protect the neural elements. These changes can result in back and/or leg pain.

Patient Presentation

Typical patients suffering from aging instability often present with mechanical low back and leg pain and experience:

    • Worsened pain with loading (standing, walking, extension, transitions such as sit-to-stand or bending)
    • Improved symptoms with unloading (sitting, flexion)

Minuteman as a Solution

Minuteman® is a minimally invasive interspinous fusion device, implanted through a lateral approach. It’s designed to provide pain relief and restored function for patients suffering from instability by lifting, balancing, reducing motion, and securing the segment.

Lift

Doubles
foraminal area

Balance

~3x increase in
posterior disc height

Reduce

Reduces motion
by 82%

Secure

92% fusion rate

Learn more about Minuteman

Visit our Minuteman page to see a full list of features and benefits and learn about Minuteman’s unique lateral approach or read our Minuteman clinical studies to dig into the data behind the procedure.

Features & Benefits
Clinical Studies

The Minuteman® G5 Fusion Plate is a posterior, non-pedicle fusion device, intended for use at a single interspace in the non-cervical spine (T1-S1). It is intended for plate fixation/attachment to spinous processes for the purpose of achieving instrumented posterior arthrodesis (i.e., fusion) in the following conditions:

    • Lumbar Spinal Stenosis;
    • Degenerative Disc Disease (DDD) (defined as back pain of discogenic origin with degeneration of the disc confirmed by history and radiographic studies); and/or
    • Spondylolisthesis.

The Minuteman® GS MIS Fusion Plate is intended for use with bone graft material. The device may be implanted via a lateral transverse approach (L1-S1) or a posterior approach (T1-S1).

*Data on file.