ARTICLE SUMMARY:
Durable tendon-to-bone healing is among the biggest challenges in orthopedics, with implications for long-term success of common surgical procedures like shoulder repairs and ACLs. Leading orthopedics bioengineer Stavros Thomopoulos of Columbia University is at the forefront of research on solutions based on a better understanding of the processes that prevent tendon-to-bone healing and the regenerative technologies most likely to help. Part three of a three-part series.
The shoulder surgery market is one of the fastest growing within orthopedics, due to improved technologies that make procedures better and safer, an increase in injury rates, and an aging population; Wright Medical Inc., a leading supplier of extremities implants, estimates the shoulder surgery market growth rate is 7% to 9% a year—far higher than the flat to low single digit growth rates of orthopedics overall—no wonder that it and others like Smith & Nephew PLC are investing in the field.
