Technological innovation is the key for surgical progress in knee arthroplasty and
improvement in patient outcomes. Exploring patented technologies can help elucidate …

Background Surgery is in a constant continuum of innovation with refinement of technique
and instrumentation. Arthroplasty surgery potentially represents an area with highly …

Background: Technological innovation in orthopaedics is key to advancing patient care. As
emerging technologies near maturity, clinicians must be able to objectively assess where …

Since their introduction in the 1960s, knee replacement prosthetics have advanced in
technical sophistication, enabling new generations of products to be developed and …

The robotic-assisted knee arthroplasty has gained increasing attention in the research field.
To date, no comprehensive bibliometric analysis has been carried out on this topic. The …

The field of medicine relentlessly pursues scientific advancement through ongoing basic
science research and clinical investigation. In the present landscape of rapidly evolving …

Purpose Most opponents of assistive technologies in orthopedic surgery consider them as a
marketing ruse or fashion. Our hypothesis was that many innovations in modern knee …

Background As technology‐assisted surgery has boosted in the last decades, we aimed to
investigate the factors affecting adoption and to predict the future utilization of technology …

Introduction Health-care costs in the United States have increased sub-stantially over time.
From 1980 to 2007, the percentage of gross national product spent on health care has …

The objective of this study was to characterize recent trends in orthopedic device
development across different subspecialty areas. Orthopedic 510 (k) clearances, premarket …