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Thumbs Up on This Implant

Posted on Monday, April 8th, 2019

BioPro is a technologically superior implant design When orthopedic surgeon Dr. Alejandro Badia was asked why he found BioPro a technologically superior implant design and why he started using this implant exclusively several years ago, the internationally renowned hand and upper-limb surgeon responded: Rather than standard one-piece CMC implant designs, the BioPro® Modular Thumb [...]

Injuries that Could Cost Teams the World Cup

Posted on Tuesday, May 15th, 2018

"Upper extremity injuries tend to keep the players out of the game for a bit longer" For some countries, soccer is an integral part of their culture, and their players are hailed as national heroes. So, with the World Cup merely a month away, fans from all over the world are placing their bets on their national teams and players. One key component that defines these teams’ victories [...]

What is Causing your Thumb Pain?

Posted on Thursday, May 29th, 2014

Anti-inflammatories, splining, or even corticosteroid injections simply diminish symptoms but do not provide a long-term solution. They do not alter the often-inevitable course of progressive pain and even deformity.Osteoarthritis of the thumb, most typically basal joint arthritis, is the second most common location for arthritis in the hand but the most functionally disabling,. The [...]

Biodegrable CMC Spacers for Basal Thumb OA Drive Growth at Small Bone Innovations, Inc.

Posted on Friday, January 10th, 2014

Surgeons in U.S. and Europe treating more basal thumb OA cases using Artelon(R) technology CHICAGO, March 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Small Bone Innovations, Inc. (SBI) reported that annual sales in the U.S. and Europe of its biodegradable Artelon(R) Spacer CMC-I exceeded 500 units used in treating osteoarthritis (OA) at the base of the thumb. The condition particularly affects as many as one-in-four [...]

Small Bone Innovations Adds Artelon(R) CMC Spacer Arthro To Thumb Osteo- Arthritis Implant Line

Posted on Friday, January 10th, 2014

Small Bone Innovations, Inc. (SBi), a single-source provider of products, technology and education for the small bone and joint sector of the orthopedic industry, announced that its Artelon(R) CMC Spacer Arthro has been cleared by the FDA for marketing in the U.S. This product is an extension of SBi's line of carpal metacarpal (CMC) spacers to treat osteo-arthritis (OA) in the base of [...]

European Group to View Live Satellite Coverage Tomorrow of New Form of Arthritic Hand Repair Surgery

Posted on Thursday, January 10th, 2013

MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A group of leading European hand surgeons will tomorrow view ‘live’ an arthroscopic surgical procedure to implant a biodegradable thumb joint resurfacing material called a ‘spacer’.The procedure will be performed by Alejandro Badia, MD, Chief of Hand Surgery at Baptist Hospital, Miami, and owner of the Badia Hand-to-Shoulder Center in Doral. His patient [...]