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...Forme Power Bra More forgiving than a posture brace – this bra-with-benefits was designed by an orthopaedic surgeon to encourage the shoulders to move back....
...A few months before meeting Hooke’s team leader, Dr David Porter, I’d been told by an orthopaedic surgeon that I’d probably need a total knee replacement within four years....
...Before Alere, Mr Nawana spent more than 15 years at Johnson & Johnson, including time as president of its DePuy Synthes spine business....
...It is moving into shoulders and techniques for fusing spines when discs degenerate. Medacta’s speciality is minimally-invasive surgery, which leaves less of a wound and reduces hospital time....
...He spoke to the FT on Saturday after completing a six-hour surgery on a broken spine. The patient, in his 30s, had been beaten with clubs and whips by five members of the RSF, he said....
...Just four months after the specialist spine and orthopaedic clinic’s largely unpublicised launch, part of the space is already occupied “about once every two weeks . . . and I’d say that [will build] over...
...In August 2017, the company acquired CellRight Technologies, a biotech company whose human tissue scaffolds are used in spine, trauma, general orthopaedic, foot and ankle, dental, and sports medicine surgical...
...For Medtronic, it would mean diversification away from its traditional focus (spine)....
...The theme of pain was often present in her work, with Kahlo depicting herself pierced by nails or wearing a necklace of thorns, with a fractured heart or spine replaced by a broken column....
...Productivity improved by 36 per cent in orthopaedics outpatients and 20 per cent in dermatology. In just one-year efficiency savings were $2.5m....
...Spine For the first time, a patient with a degenerative spine condition has been treated using a 3D printed titanium cervical implant....
...At the time of his death, Cervantes is said to have had six teeth and his spine was bent....
...Synthes specialises in plates, screws, saws and drills surgeons use when repairing skulls and spines....
...‘Since we have only one spine, any physical action or exercise will work the trunk muscles,’ he says....
...These makers of hip and knee joint replacements and spine implants are benefiting, like the drugs industry, from the ageing population....
...Toward the end of 2003 I found it in the handful of companies that dominate the market for hip and knee joint replacements and spine implants....
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