Introducing BlackArmor®
BlackArmor® is a unique material used to create long carbon fiber implants. Designed specifically for patients with spinal tumors, these implants offer significant advantages over traditional metal options like titanium.
Conventional metal implants can interfere with medical imaging, making it difficult for your care team to clearly see and monitor your condition. This can limit their ability to plan and deliver effective treatment.
Unlike titanium, BlackArmor® is radiolucent, allowing X-rays to pass through without creating imaging artifacts. This provides your medical team with a clear, unobstructed view of the tumor and surrounding structures, enabling precise monitoring and optimized treatment.
With BlackArmor®, you and your care team can see clearly, treat confidently, and focus on what matters most—your journey Back to Life.
Find out below how BlackArmor® can help your team and affect each step in your care path!
FAQ BlackArmor®
A spinal implant is a medical device used to stabilize the spine, relieve pain, and improve function.
BlackArmor® is a unique composite material made with carbon fiber. Carbon fiber is currently being used in many different facets—such as aerospace, racing cars, sports, and medical implants. It is exceptionally durable and completely radiolucent, meaning X-rays can freely pass through it.
Implants made of BlackArmor® Carbon/PEEK have over 20 years of clinical evidence and are widely used in the orthopedic and neurosurgical field to treat different pathologies of the spine.
The human body recognizes BlackArmor® as a nonforeign material. It is exceptionally strong and durable, like its metallic counterparts, but is also completely radiolucent.
See clearly, treat confidently
Conventional implants are made of metal, typically titanium. These implants cause interferences on medical imaging. This inhibits your care team from visualizing what they need and also does not allow your treatment providers to efficiently treat your tumor. This is where BlackArmor® can help! Unlike titanium, BlackArmor® is radiolucent, allowing X-rays to pass through it, and reduces artifacts on medical imaging, making it the ideal material for optimized tumor therapy.
Titanium vs. BlackArmor®
The treatment with BlackArmor® Carbon/PEEK is available at different hospitals. Find a Treatment Center
The specific procedure depends on the type of implant and the condition being treated. Generally, the surgery involves making an incision in the back, removing damaged tissue, and inserting the implant.
Recovery time varies depending on the type of surgery and the individual patient. It can take several weeks or months to fully recover.
It enables your surgeon to optimally manage your perioperative recovery
Your surgeon can better evaluate the surgical outcome, your care providers benefit from simplified postoperative management, and the need for aggressive surgical options decreases as radiation oncology effectively addresses the tumor.
It improves your radiation therapyTherapeutic treatment of a disease by means of ionizing radiation after surgery
Therapy becomes more targeted and effective with precise doseAlso “absorbed dose”; physical quantity indicating the average energy delivered by ionizing radiation to matter of mass application to tumor tissue, minimizing exposure of organs at risk, reducing toxicitySide effects of radiation therapy. The side effects affect all healthy tissue around the tumor and predominantly exhibit clinical effects in the organs at risk., and preserving a low risk of radiation myelopathy, while offering safer options like SBRT and proton therapy, and potentially requiring fewer visits.
It improves your follow-up care
Early detection of local tumor recurrence enables more treatment options and reduces emergency situations, while improved MRI quality minimizes the need for invasive examinations like CT myelograms and supports more confident, definitive decision-making.