Non-surgical orthopedic medical devices: an interview with Brian Moore, Director of Sales and Product Marketing from DJO global
Could you please give a brief introduction to what non-surgical orthopedic medical devices are?
Non-surgical orthopedic medical devices are products designed to help relieve pain in specific parts of the body. The non-surgical orthopedic product category encompasses devices for problems of the musculoskeletal system, which practically includes the entire body, from the knee to the hand to foot and ankle. The musculoskeletal system includes bones, joints, ligaments, tendons, muscles, and nerves - everything you need to move about comfortably.
The largest non-surgical orthopedic medical devices subset is functional braces. Functional braces are designed with the objective of allowing normal joint kinematics while limiting unwanted displacements and rotations between the tibia and femur that might detrimentally strain a healing ligament or graft or produce intra-articular injury.
What have non-surgical orthopedic medical devices traditionally been used for?
Most often, non-surgical orthopedics are used for rehabilitation, pain management and physical therapy....
