Experience and Passion  

Established at the end of 2000 by Christophe Lavigne, Hervé Dinville and Patrick Richard, LDR’s founders have a long, successful history in the musculoskeletal industry. Their combined experience spans research and development, regulatory approval, marketing, sales and international distribution. Lavigne, Dinville and Richard first worked together at JBS, a French spine company founded in the late 1980s. JBS went on to create a ground-breaking artificial disc family, now known as ProDisc®, along with other innovative spinal implants. They founded LDR in Troyes, France on the premise that there were still many unsolved issues in spine surgery. LDR would focus on developing medical devices and instrumentation for the surgical treatment of spinal conditions caused by congenital defects, injury and trauma.

Lavigne, Dinville and Richard pledged to work collaboratively with surgeons to create new implants, instrumentation and techniques to help make spine surgery better, more consistent and easier for surgeons, as well as to produce an improved quality of life for patients. LDR’s prolific achievement in creating innovative spine products in such a short period of time lies with their deep experience and innate passion to meet the needs of the most skilled orthopaedic surgeons. LDR surveys current spine products, taps into the experience of skilled surgeons to define existing obstacles, and then looks outside the box for new solutions that will revolutionize the way we treat spinal pathologies. This pairing of surgical, engineering, and peak technology is the “soul” of LDR. In cooperation with the worldwide spine surgeon community, LDR promotes new ideas which are the basis of tomorrow’s technological progress. Innovating As LDR’s innovative fusion products gained market share, LDR simultaneously developed a second-generation artificial disc platform technology to build upon the initial success of devices such as the ProDisc® and the Charité®. LDR knew that while these systems were good, they had been developed more than ten years ago which opened up opportunities for improvement resulting in the birth of Mobidisc® and Mobi-C®.

CAUTION: The Mobi-L™ (Mobidisc®) is not available in the United States.

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