Let’s go back in history to look at five game-changing innovations in orthopedics and see how they originated. These five changed orthopedics forever. All of these crazy technology ideas have become routine practice today.
As you read these, take note of the patterns. The innovation pathway is always...
an entrepreneurial surgeon sees a clinical need for a new technology,
then monkeys around with prototypes,
then collaborates with a device company to bring forth the first commercial products.
#1 Arthroscopy
In 1962, Dr Masaki Watanabe, a Japanese teaching surgeo...