Last week, under the leadership of Dr. Edwin Diepeveen, the first endoscopic procedures were performed at Flexclinics Spine Center Utrecht in The Netherlands using the MaxMoreSpine system.
Only a small incision
The results were excellent: only a small incision was needed to perform this procedure and the patient was able to return home shortly after it. The team did an amazing job to ensure comfort and a quick recovery for the patient. When asked how Dr. Edwin Diepeveen achieved this great result, he said the following:
“My background is as an orthopedic spinal surgeon with a special interest in minimally invasive spinal surgery and I am trained in the PTED technique. Since 2019, I have been performing endoscopic procedures and I started with PTED, then lumbar interlaminar procedures and later endoscopic decompressions and cervical hernia surgery.”
Fantastic team
It is clear that he doesn’t do all this on his own, and Dr. Diepeveen speaks about it with pride:
“No, that’s right, I work with a fantastic team. Since January 2025, I have been co-founder of the Flexclinics Spine Center together with an existing clinic, where I perform minimally invasive spinal surgery with 2 other spinal surgeons, most of them endoscopic hernia and stenosis surgery, lumbar and cervical, and also minimally invasive spondylodeses.
Since the establishment of the spinecenter, I have been working with MaxMoreSpine (I also have experience with other systems) and I consciously chose this company because of their unique blunt tipped reamers that we use in PTED. I support minimally invasive back surgery because of all the well known advantages and in particular of endoscopic back surgery.
Endoscopic back surgery is a broad platform that can also be used widely for multiple spinal pathologies, part of which is PTED. The ambition is to continue to build on the awareness of endoscopic spinal surgery together with MaxMoreSpine and to also perform the spondylodeses endoscopically when possible.
My goal: better spinal care through a personalized approach and using (as much as possible) minimally invasive techniques!”