News & Events

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January 23, 2012: Choice Spine Launches Major System into Lucrative Pedicle Screw Spine Market

There are many pedicle screw systems on the market but we feel that our system is unique in terms of what product features it supplies to the surgeon. Surgeons look to companies that are innovative in their designs and offer thinking that is "outside the box. "

Read on the Business Wire »

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January 6, 2009: Back in the industry - Spinal implant company boasts location, growth

As an increasing number of baby boomers age, so do the number of back pain sufferers. Enter Marty Altshuler and Rick Henson. The pair own ChoiceSpine, a Knoxville-based medical device company that manufactures spinal implant systems for orthopedics and neurosurgery, one of the fastest growing segments in the industry.

Read the full Knoxville News Sentinel profile »

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June 2008: Surgeons Drive Innovation of Homegrown Spinal Implant Company

In 2006, business partners Marty Altshuler and Rick Henson had a few challenges before them. Separately, they had each left lucrative positions with national and international medical supply companies. They had just spent most of the business startup capital they had saved on a couple of medical product ventures, including buying the assets of Orthotec, a Los Angeles company, and buying the U.S. marketing rights to a European medical device company with a U.S. partner that had nearly $40M in U.S. sales two years prior.

Read the full East Tennessee Medical News article »

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ChoiceSpine will be closed on the following dates in 2011:

• Good Friday, Friday, April 22nd
• Memorial Day, Monday, May 30th
• Independence Day, Monday, July 4th
• Labor Day, Monday, September 5th
• Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 24th
• Day After Thanksgiving, Friday, November 25th
• Christmas Day (observed), Monday, December 26th