ORATEC Interventions, Inc.

ORATEC Interventions, Inc. manufactures and markets medical devices that use controlled thermal energy to treat spine and joint disorders. Its product, the SpineCATH IntraDiscal ElectroThermal Therapy or IDET system, provides an invasive outpatient alternative to patients suffering from chronic low back pain caused by degenerative disc disease; and the ElectroThermal Arthroscopy System, which enables physicians to navigate to the location of damaged tissue within a spinal disc using a self-guiding single-use catheter. The company was formerly known as Dorsamed Incorporated and changed its name to ORATEC Interventions, Inc. in October 1995. The company was founded in 1993 and is based in Menlo Park, California. ORATEC Interventions, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Smith & Nephew plc.