This R.I. startup wants to change the way sports medicine treats injuries (Boston Globe)
Native Orthopaedics introduces a suture zip tie for sports medicine, allowing precise tensioning and adjustment during surgery for better, more predictable tissue repair.
“What we’ve come up with here is, think of it as a zip tie, but it’s a suture zip tie,” said Tom Gamache, co-founder and CEO of Native Orthopaedics.
PROVIDENCE — Tom Gamache, the CEO of Rhode Island-based Native Orthopaedics, a startup that wants to reimagine the way sports medicine treats injuries, said his cofounder Christian Anderson was inspired by fly-fishing.
Anderson, an orthopedic surgeon and sports medicine specialist is based in Nashville, Tenn., holds records for fly-fishing.
“Some of the observations from fly-fishing with knot tying and line splicing, he recognized that they could potentially fix some of the challenges that he was facing in the sports medicine space with soft tissue repair,” Gamache, 44, told the Globe. “So that was the beginning of the idea.”
Anderson partnered with Gamache, who has a background in mechanical engineering, and created Native Orthopaedics, which launched in April 202...
