Orthopedics This Week - 2018 | July 17, 2018 | Page 4

ORTHOPEDICS THIS WEEK
VOLUME 14, ISSUE 23 | JULY 17, 2018
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The Ten Best Sports Medicine Technologies for 2018
BY TRACEY ROMERO
T
he ten winning companies with the
BEST new sports medicine technol-
ogies for 2018 are: Arthrex, Carestream
Health, Include Health Inc., iTrace Bio-
medical Inc., KATOR LLC, MTF Biolog-
ics in conjunction with Missouri Ortho-
pedic Institute & ConMed, PolyPhys-
ics, Inc., Quadrant Biosciences, Stryker.
Stryker had two winning technologies.
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 2018 to treat injured ath-
letes 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:
1. Be creative and innovative.
2. Have long term significance to the
problem of treating the injured
athlete. Does this technology have
staying power?
3. Solve a clinical problem. To what
extent does this technology solve a
current clinical problem or prob-
lem that is inadequately solved
today?
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Carestream Onsight
3D Extremity System –
Carestream Health
Inventors: William Snyder, John
Yorkston, Dave Foos, Robert Asento,
Anthony DiRisio, Joseph Newman,
Michael Litzenberger, Douglas Csaszar,
Andrew Hartmann.
Engineers: William Snyder, John
Yorkston, Dave Foos, Robert Asento,
Anthony DiRisio, Joseph Newman,
Michael Litzenberger, Douglas Csaszar,
Andrew Hartmann, Adam Pruyne Poet-
ker, Rod Wagner, Mike Kensek, Steve
Lamy, Doug Bailey, Alex Mathew, Dave
Laurie Cesar, Weidong Huang.
Lower radiation, affordable and extreme
flexibility. These were the attributes that
led judges to rate Carestream OnSight
3D Extremity System so highly.
FDA approved, the system relies on cone
beam CT (CBCT) technology to capture
weight bearing and other types of patient
Carestream Onsight 3D Extremity System
4. Does it have the potential to
improve standard of care?
5. Is it cost effective?
6. I would use it.
Here, then are the ten best new sports
medicine technologies for 2018
arranged in alphabetical order:
The ENTIRE Carestream Team
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