Barricaid's Blog

Dr. Mark Arts is a consultant neurosurgeon at the Haaglanden Medical Center in The Hague, The Netherlands, with a special interest in (complex) spinal surgery and clinical research. In 2010 he received his PhD with clinical research on minimally invasive herniated disc surgery. As such he was first author on the 2009 JAMA publication on Tubular Discectomy versus Conventional Microdiscectomy for Sciatica. In 2011 he joined a European, multicenter Barricaid® randomized controlled trial (RCT) as clinical investigator, becoming one of three study centers that provided a blinded patient arm to the RCT. Dr. Arts has since (co-)authored multiple abstracts and manuscripts on Barricaid annular closure, and serves as an educational consultant to Intrinsic Therapeutics.