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How I Can Do a Rotator Cuff Repair for $350

This article is written by Blair Rhode, MD, Sports Medicine Physician & Founder, RoG Sports Medicine. The new healthcare reality is one of accountability for both surgical outcome and costs. We have had the ability to innovate in our surgical …

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Orthofix sells Breg sports medicine unit to PE firm for $158M cash

April 24, 2012 by MassDevice staff

Orthofix sells its sports medicine subsidiary Breg Inc. to private equity subsidiary Breg Acquisition Corp. for $157.5 million in

Exactech Selects Medical Metrics as Imaging Core Lab for Cartilage Repair Study

HOUSTON--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Medical Metrics Inc, (MMI), an experienced provider of medical imaging core lab services for global clinical trials, has been selected by 

Aspen, DJO, Spinal Technologies Drive U.S. Orthopedic Bracing and Support Market to Over $2 Billion Due to Spinal Orthoses Growth

Cold Therapy Sales from DJO, Breg, Biomet Fuel Pain Management Market According to a Report by iData Research Vancouver, BC (PRWEB) March 20, 2012 According to a new report by

Surgeon’s $2 million damage claim upheld

A surgeon who designed a cushioned seat for patients in shoulder operations won a final court ruling Wednesday for more than $2 million in damages from a Hayward

Carticept

Office Injection Art Meets Science- Carticept’s “Navigator DS” at the AAOS 2012….

Written By: Jeff Chandler, OrthoSpineNews, jeff@tdg-llc.com Historically, orthopedic drug administration for osteoarthritis (~27m Americans) and cartilage injuries (~2m/yr) has been very orthodox and consistent so we thought, but now

Pathfinder Hires Medical Device Veteran as President and CEO By Pathfinder Therapeutics, Inc.

NASHVILLE, TENN., MARCH 5, 2012 — /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Pathfinder Therapeutics, a medical device company with first to market products for "surgical GPS" of the abdomen, is pleased to announce

Diamondback repair optimizes pressurized contact area in rotator cuff tear treatment

Researchers at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio discovered the diamondback double row (DBK) repair significantly increased rotator cuff pressurized contact area compared to

Osteoporosis specialists call for testing bone density in at-risk women more often

Although a recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests women with normal results ondual-energy X-ray absorptiometry scans at age 67 years and older may wait as much

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Implantable, wireless sensors share secrets of healing tissues

Following an orthopedic procedure, surgeons usually rely on  or MRIs to monitor the progress of their patient’s recovery. The new sensors, created by Rensselaer faculty researcher Eric

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Cayenne Medical Closes $10 Million Capital Raise

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Feb. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Cayenne Medical, Inc., a private sports medicine device company, today announced the closing of a $10 million equity financing, with new investor Fletcher Spaght Ventures joining

CartiHeal Raises $5 Million in Financing to Support Agili-CTM For Single Stage Arthroscopic Cartilage Regeneration

TEL AVIV, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CartiHeal (2009), Ltd, a privately held medical device company, focused on developing and bringing to market a proprietary, off-the-shelf, and cell-free cartilage regeneration

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Stem Cells in Sports Injuries: A Performance Enhancement? Not Reimbursable? C’mon Man!

By: Jeff Chandler, Sports Medicine Writer at OrthoSpineNews.com Have you had enough? Let’s see, the last time I checked I thought that Doctors were to supposedly “best” treat our

KFx Medical Receives Patent for Rotator Cuff Repair Device

KFx Medical has received a new patent to cover its knotless double row rotator cuff repair, according to a companynews release.

The new patent is a continuation

Conformis

HOLY COW – Conformis nets $89 million in Series E round

The Burlington, Mass.-based orthopedic device maker nets $89 million in a Series E round CEO Philipp Lang says it will use to build out a direct sales force