THE TEN BEST SPORTS MEDICINE TECHNOLOGIES FOR 2017 (Orthopedics This Week)
The ten winning companies with the BEST new sports medicine technologies for 2017 are: Arthrex, Inc., Bioelectronics Corporation, Breg, Inc., Freeze Sleeve, LLC, MuscleSound, LLC, NCS Lab SRL, OrthoNOW, Smith & Nephew and Suture Innovations LLC.
Rewarding Innovation and Perspiration
This annual award rewards inventors, engineering teams, physicians and their companies who’ve created the most innovative, enduring and practical products in 2016 to treat injured athletes in ANY activity—whether sports, industry, military or healthcare. To win the Orthopedics This Week Best New Technology Award for sports medicine care, a new technology must meet the following criteria:
Be creative and innovative.
Have long term significance to the problem of treating the injured athlete. Does this technology have staying power?
Solve a clinical problem. To what extent does this technology solve a current clinical problem or problem that is inadequately solved today?
Does it have the potential to improve standard of care?
Is it cost effective?
I would use it
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