iFuse Implant System

How the iFuse Implant System Works

Designed Specifically for Fusion

The iFuse Implant System® is intended for sacroiliac fusion for conditions including sacroiliac joint dysfunction that is a direct result of sacroiliac joint disruption and degenerative sacroiliitis. This includes conditions whose symptoms began during pregnancy or in the peripartum period and have persisted postpartum for more than 6 months. The iFuse Implant System is also intended for sacroiliac fusion to augment stabilization and immobilization of the sacroiliac joint in skeletally mature patients undergoing sacropelvic fixation as part of a lumbar or thoracolumbar fusion. In addition, the iFuse Implant System is intended for sacroiliac fusion in acute, non-acute, and non-traumatic fractures involving the sacroiliac joint.

Minimally Invasive Sacroiliac Surgery: What to Expect

Sacroiliac (SI) joint fusion is a surgical procedure performed in an operating room, with either general or spinal anesthesia. The iFuse Implant System, a minimally invasive surgical (MIS) procedure, requires a small incision (about one to two inches long), along the side of the buttock.

Your surgeon will use a specially designed system to guide the instruments that prepare the bone and facilitate placement of the titanium implants across the sacroiliac joint. Fluoroscopy, an imaging technique commonly used by physicians, provides your surgeon real-time moving images of internal structures during the procedure. Typically, three iFuse Implants are used in an iFuse procedure.

Both the surgical technique and the iFuse Implant System are designed to protect the tissues surrounding the surgical site.

The whole MIS SI joint procedure takes about an hour, and recovery time is significantly less than open surgery.

Your surgeon will decide when you can return home based on your postsurgical status.

The iFuse Implant System®

Short video showing how the iFuse Implants are used in minimally invasive SI joint fusion surgery.