Cresco’s story begins from an unmet need in treating Early Onset Scoliosis

Cresco Spine began in 2015 with a single child. Faced with a life-threatening case of Early Onset Scoliosis and no sustainable way to treat it, UMC Utrecht spine surgeons René Castelein and Moyo Kruyt applied a principle from limb lengthening to the spine, pairing familiar spinal instrumentation with a spring to provide continuous, dynamic distraction.

That first Spring Distraction System (SDS™) led to years of clinical research, a refined design, and the founding of Cresco Spine to make it available to surgeons worldwide. The purpose remains rooted in that first clinical need: helping children with spinal deformity keep growing, with a system designed to accommodate movement and reduce the burden of repeated interventions.

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EOS can ask a child to spend their first ten years moving between operating room, recovery ward and home.

Early onset scoliosis is diagnosed before a child’s tenth birthday, often much earlier. In its severe forms it does more than curve the spine: it constrains the chest as it grows, limiting the development of the lungs and heart at the very stage when that development matters most. Treatment works against a difficult constraint. The spine has to be corrected, but it also has to be allowed to grow.

For decades the answer has been to implant rigid rods and lengthen them as the child grows — a cycle of interventions and follow-up that can stretch across a child’s entire early life. Even current modern solutions still require frequent visits to the hospital. One of the reasons we started Cresco Spine is that we believed that trade-off, growth or correction, was not a permanent one.

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