Ch. 1. Adjacent Level Disc Biomechanics -- Ch. 2. Radiologic Assessment of All Unfused Lumbar Segements After Instrumented Posterior -- Ch. Spinal Fusion -- Ch. 3. Physiology of the Intervertebral Disc -- Ch. 4. Natural Evolution and Resolution of Chronic Low-Back Pain -- Ch. 5. Dynamic MRI in the Seated Position Increases Insight Into Disease of the Lumbar Spine -- Ch. 6. Molecular Therapy of the Intervertebral Disc -- Ch. 7. Nucleus Pulposus Regeneration: Present Limitations and Future Opportunities -- Ch. 8. What is the Evidence Base for IDET? -- Ch. 9. Lumbar Spinal Stenosis with Low Back Pain: Is Fusion Necessary? -- Ch. 10. Indication and contraindication for lumbar surgical non-fusion techniques -- Ch. 11. Lumbar Surgical Approaches for Non Fusion Techniques -- Ch. 12. Nucleus Pulposus Replacement: Basic Science and Indications for Clinical Use -- Ch. 13. Prosthetic Disc Nucleus: treatment with the anterior approach -- Ch. 14. Functional Lumbar Artificial Nucleus Replacement-DASCORTM -- Ch. 15. Total lumbar disc arthroplasty: overview of clinical results for existing implants -- Ch. 16. U.S. Update of CHARIT¿: One Year after FDA Approval -- Ch. 17. Charite III artificial disc replacement: indications, preoperative examinations and -- Ch. contraindications. -- Ch. 18. Clinical results of lumbar total disc replacement with the Maverick Prosthesis Prospective -- Ch. study, 2 to 4 years follow up -- Ch. 19. Influence of frontal and sagittal position of Total Disc Arthoplasty on clinical outcomes at 3 years follow up -- Ch. 20. Motion Preservation -- Disc Replacement for Lumbar Degenerative Disorders with the -- Ch. ProDisc(r)-L Prosthesis -- Ch. 21. A New Approach to Lumbar Disc Prosthesis -- Ch. 22. Design and surgical technique of the FlexiCore lumbar artificial disc -- Ch. Stabilisation techniques I -- Ch. 23. X STOP Interspinous Implant for Lumbar Spinal Decompression -- Ch. 24. MRI Changes in the Lumbar Spine Following Treatment with the X-Stop Inter-Spinous -- Ch. Distraction Device -- Ch. 25. Impliant TOPS: Total Posterior Element Replacement -- Ch. 26. Mechanical supplementation by dynamic fixation -- Ch. in degenerative intervertebral lumbar segments: the Wallis System -- Ch. 27. Posterior Non-fusion stabilisation of the degenerated lumbar spine with cosmic -- Ch. 28. ProdiscCTM cervical disc prosthesis in the first 68 patients. One-year evaluation of results. -- Ch. 29. A new cervical disc prosthesis: Mobi-C. Preliminary results of a prospective study. -- Ch. 30. The Quest for the New -- Ch. 31. The SWISSspine Registry -- Ch. 32. An introduction to the medical device regulation in Europe -- Ch. 33. Outcome & Cost of Lumbar Disc Replacement versus Lumbar Fusion.