Rotation Medical has developed a new way to treat rotator cuff injuries that addresses both the pain and degenerative nature of this problem. The treatment includes a proprietary, reconstituted collagen scaffold and an disposable instrument system, which includes the arthroscopic scaffold delivery, the tendon staple and the bone staple instruments. The Rotation Medical Rotator Cuff […]
Since wearable health technologies seem to have found the most traction in a slice of the population with a great interest in being healthy, it makes sense that many Olympic athletes used sensors, algorithms and data to get themselves in top shape for the event. Here are a few examples: Data-obsessed Alpine skier Steven Nyman […]
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The National Institutes of Health is putting some of the $30 million the National Football League donated to concussion research last year to work funding studies on how concussion affects the brain and what the potential long-term effects of repeat brain injuries could be. Although football isn’t the only profession where its players are prone […]
Think shock absorbers for the human body. Moximed could help active and young patients who have osteoarthritis prolong the amount of time before total knee replacement. The Heyward, Calif.-based company’s Kinespring Knee Implant System is a medical device that absorbs part of the load put on the knee, without changing anatomy. The device is positioned […]
Researchers at UC-San Diego‘s Department of Nanoengineering report to have created a new biosensor can warn athletes when they’re “about to hit the wall” but is also reminiscent of Fruit Stripe gum–it’s applied to the skin like a temporary tattoo. The sensors monitor the lactate released in sweat. Unlike clunkier lactate-measuring methods, such as blood sampling, […]
A concussion can manifest itself a variety of ways, from a headache to impaired memory to slurred speech. That’s why athletic trainers, nurses and physicians have a growing toolkit of assessment techniques for evaluating athletes who undergo a blow or jolt to the head. One piece that’s missing from that toolkit, according to Oklahoma entrepreneur […]
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