Quarterly Newsletters
| Date | Title | Highlights |
| Oct-31-2011 | Game Plan Newsletter Vol. 4 No. 2 | Biomet Sport Medicine is excited to release the fourteenth edition of the Game Plan, Strategies to Help Surgeons Get Patients Back in the Game. This issue focuses on the Fall Arthroscopy Association of North America (AANA) meeting in Palm Desert, California, November 17-19, 2011. In addition, we have introduced the award winning family of JuggerKnot™ Soft Anchors. Biomet Sports Medicine has been proud to partner with surgeons Stephen M. Howell, M.D. and Gregory C. Fanelli, M.D., two of the leading experts in knee soft tissue repair and reconstruction, for the past two decades. Dr. Howell will be presenting on his research and development of an anatomic transtibial approach utilizing the Howell™ 65 Degree Tibial Guide. Dr. Fanelli will be discussing his pearls and research on multiligament knee reconstruction and repair. This will take place Friday, November 18, 2011, at the JW Marriott Desert Springs Resort & Spa. Please view the newsletter to learn more details regarding this meeting. We are excited to announce the launch of the JuggerKnot™ Soft Anchor family. This award winning anchor began with a 1.4mm diameter, 100% suture based anchor system and has quickly grown into a family of anchors that offer sizing options for over 25 different procedures. This newsletter also highlights the abbreviated technique by Jeffrey L. Nacht, M.D., utilizing the JuggerKnot™ Soft Anchor-14mm Short for Achilles Tendon Repair (with associated Haglund’s excision). This abbreviated technique highlights the surgical steps to remove the bony prominence and repair the Achilles. You can read about all of these and more in this issue of the Game Plan. |
| Jun-8-2011 | Game Plan Newsletter Vol.3 No.4 | Biomet Sports Medicine is excited to release the twelfth edition of the Game Plan, Strategies to Help Surgeons Get Patients Back in the Game. This issue acknowledges the award winning JuggerKnot™ Soft Anchor and announces the launch of DermaSpan™ Acellular Dermal Matrix. Also included in the newsletter is information regarding a recent clinical study of the Howell™ ACL System.
Biomet Sports Medicine has received the 2011 Medical Design Excellence Award (MDEA) for innovative design of the JuggerKnot™ Soft Anchor. This suture anchor device allows surgeons to reattach soft tissue to the bone. The JuggerKnot™ Soft Anchor incorporates an all-suture design with small size and high strength. The MDEA competition is the only award system that honors the advances of medical products. The MDEA winners will be honored in New York City on Wednesday June 8, 2011. Jeffrey Gittins, M.D. addresses the benefits of the JuggerKnot™ Soft Anchor when used for lateral ankle repairs. This anchor provides a strong fixation to the bone. The soft anchor does not remove bone; instead this suture compresses the bone within the pilot. The placement of the anchors uses very little time. The inside spread of the newsletter announces Biomet Sports Medicine’s launch of the DermaSpan™ Acellular Dermal Matrix. This product is derived from allograft human skin and is highly optimal for use in tendon coverage or reinforcement and wound procedures. DermaSpan™ Acellular Dermal Matrix is unique in various ways, such as this product is supplied sterile with a Sterility Assurance Level of 10-6 and no refrigeration is required. Along with the launch of DermaSpan™ Acellular Dermal Matrix, the inside spread of the newsletter includes information regarding the three independent tissue banks that Biomet Sports Medicine works with to provide allograft tissue. The final page of the newsletter includes information on a recent clinical study of the Howell™ ACL System. This system includes three products utilized in ACL reconstruction, the WasherLoc™ Tibial Fixation Device, the EZLoc™ Femoral Fixation Device, and the Howell™ 65° Tibial Guide. The rehabilitation process, tunnel technique, fixation methods, and graft choice used during ACL reconstruction are all addressed within the article. You can read about all of these and more in this issue of the Game Plan. |
| Feb-9-2011 | Game Plan Newsletter Vol.3 No.3 | Biomet Sport Medicine is excited to release the eleventh edition of the Game Plan, Strategies to Help Surgeons Get Patients Back in the Game. This issue focuses on innovative products that will be highlighted at the AAOS 2011 Annual Meeting in San Diego, California on February 16-18, 2011. Two new featured products at the 2011 AAOS Annual Meeting are the TunneLoc® Tibial Fixation Device and the PowerPump™ DP System. This tibial fixation device incorporates an easy-to-use graft tensioner with a unique implant that affixes the soft tissue graft in the tibial tunnel with one simple surgical step. It is also a hands-free tensioner, which removes creep from the system and maintains tension during the insertion of the implant. The PowerPump™ DP is a dual arthroscopic pump system intended to provide fluid distention and irrigation of the knee, shoulder, hip, elbow, ankle, and wrist joint cavities and fluid suction during operative arthroscopic procedures. It provides liquid irrigation and aspiration for endoscopic procedures in one unit through two individual roller pumps. The inside spread of the newsletter includes the abbreviated technique for the TunneLoc® Tibial Fixation Device including illustrations to demonstrate the technique. Along with the abbreviated technique, a layout of the Biomet Sports Medicine booth (#1520) and all the different cleared indications for the ToggleLoc™ Fixation Device with ZipLoop™ Technology and JuggerKnot™ Soft Anchor. You can read about all of these and more in this issue of the Game Plan. |
| Dec-14-2010 | Game Plan Newsletter Vol.3 No.2 | Biomet Sport Medicine is excited to release the tenth edition of the Game Plan, Strategies to Help Surgeons Get Patients Back in the Game. This issue focuses on the Orthopaedic Skills Academy (OSA) where educational opportunities are available to surgeons. Visiting surgeons get one-on-one interactions in the O.R. with other surgeons, experienced with Biomet Sports Medicine product. Throughout the program, one has the opportunity for open discussion and can watch live surgeries. There are currently eleven visitation sites within the United States for BSM products; which are listed. This newsletter provides direction to sign up for education in the OSA by informing on how to register through www.biometusa.com.
The OSA, through recent renovations, has added new arthroscopy equipment, including 26” HD monitors, HD cameras, new light sources, and shavers. With the addition of these new upgrades, the OSA provides surgeons with an even better learning opportunity. The inside spread of the newsletter includes information for all the Patient Education Materials available and provides a short summary of each brochure, anatomical notepad and the ACL program. You may access these materials by going to BiometeMerge.com. On the back page of the newsletter is the abbreviated technique for the ToggleLocTM Fixation Device with ZipLoopTM Technology for Biceps Tendon Percutaneous Method by Daniel Worrel, M.D. This is broken down into eight steps with illustrations included. You can read about all of these and more in this issue of the Game Plan. |
| Aug-31-2010 | Game Plan Newsletter Vol.3 No.1 | Biomet Sports Medicine is excited to release the ninth issue of the Game Plan, Strategies to Help Surgeons Get Patients Back in the Game. This issue features the launch of the Mobile Learning Center (MLC). This is a large mobile lab that is designed to be an educational venue for healthcare professionals and patients interested in sports medicine injuries. In addition, we have included a national map with different locations of the MLC through May 2011. The featured abbreviated techniques in this edition include the Weil-Carver™ Hammertoe Implant, the ToggleLoc™ Fixation Device for Two Tunnel Double Bundle ACL Reconstruction and the ToggleLoc™ Fixation Device for Single Tunnel Double Bundle ACL Reconstruction. Howard Freedberg, MD shares his thoughts on the Two Tunnel Technique for ACL Reconstruction and Eric McCarty, MD shares his experiences with the Single Tibial Tunnel Double Bundle Technique. Both of these techniques utilize the ToggleLoc™ Fixation Device, Dr. Freedberg writes, "The ToggleLoc™ Device with ZipLoop™ Technology is by far the best fixation device I have ever used on the femur." Other items featured in this edition include the release of the ACL Performance Enhancement Program that was developed in conjunction with Steven Traina, MD and Nathan Lilley, MPT, OCS, CSC. This program stems largely from the last 15 years of research coming from the Cincinnati Sports Medicine Research and Education Foundation. This program is available to order for $65 through BiometeMerge.com. You can read about all of these and more in this issue of the Game Plan. |