ST. FRANCIS MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES ANNOUNCES NATIONAL AVAILABILITY OF FIRST AND ONLY FDA APPROVED, NON-FUSION TREATMENT FOR COMMON DEGENERATIVE SPINE DISORDER

St. Francis Medical Technologies, Inc. nnounced today the national launch of its patented X STOP Interspinous Process Decompression (IPD) System (" STOP"). The announcement was made at th American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) 2006 Annual Meeting in San Francisco. Business Wire (http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20060424005360&newsLang=en)