Change the Game in Sports Medicine Device Design

Discover How Biomedical Textiles Impact Sports Medicine Device Designs

A convergence of several factors is prompting a multitude of new technologies and treatments for the repair and reconstruction of damaged soft tissues in the musculoskeletal frame. Among them: an increasingly active and aging population, patient interest in minimally invasive treatments, and continuing adoption by surgeons of arthroscopic procedures.

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Explore How You Can Enable Your Arthroscopic Designs

A growing trend in arthroscopic device design is moving away from traditional rigid materials such as metals or hard plastics and incorporating tissue regeneration technologies in the treatment of strains or tears in the shoulder rotator cuff, knee ACL and PCL, tendons, ligaments, meniscus and for articular cartilage deterioration. Implantable medical fabrics are changing the game in the sports medicine field by playing an integral role as an enabling technology for advancing arthroscopic devices:

• Optimize the benefits of implantable biomaterial soft implants
• Design with flexibility and choice
• Achieve competitive leadership through collaborative engineering

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Understand how Biomedical Textiles Mimic Biomechanical Function in Joint Reconstruction and Grafts:

Implantable medical textile structures can be formed via four major categories: weaving, knitting, braiding and non-woven. Each of these textile forming technologies produces geometries with unique properties that a design engineer can leverage in order to facilitate a certain set of physical and mechanical properties specific for the intended application. These biomedical constructions and geometries can be further enhanced when blended with unique combinations of biomaterials.

The focus on procedures and devices for repairing or replacing soft tissues and joint structures demonstrates the need for an alternative materials platform: biomedical textiles. The benefits of ‘soft’ implants and fixation methods incorporating biomedical textiles are characterized by:

• flexible and shape-transformable designs
• smaller implant size
• motion preservation
• hybrid and biologic materials
• micro-porous construction benefiting healing process

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Learn more about implantable medical textiles for sports medicine device designs from Secant Medical:

• Textile Science
• Implantable Materials
• Quality Assurance
• Advanced Manufacturing
• Biomaterials Research
• Custom Designs
• Prototype Structures
• Engineer Collaboration

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