If you like so-called “baby carrots,” a new treatment launched by HydroCision Inc. might be of interest.
The Billerica-based surgical waterjet maker’s SpineJet system aims to use technology similar to that used to trim carrots down to size: A high-pressure jet of water.
The treatment is an outpatient procedure, performed under local anesthesia, in which a surgeon uses the waterjet to make a tiny incision in the fibrous outer ring of a vertebral disc, the annulus, and remove some of its pulpy nucleus to relieve the pressure that causes bulging and herniated discs.
The company said it hopes the new system will give it a slice of the double-digit growth currently enjoyed by the minimally invasive percutaneous discectomy market.