the worst of which was the dreaded “torn meniscus”. But I convinced myself that this was yet another in a series of minor setbacks that could be alleviated with “tincture of time.”
We are in what I call the Anabolic Era of sports medicine. Instead of taking out tissues like torn meniscus cartilages and jamming in cortisone (which shuts down cell metabolism) we now replace and regrow the tissues, injecting growth factors, cytokines (recruitment factors), and lubrication to...
The gluteus maximus is the largest of the gluteal muscles. The gluteal muscles are located in your buttocks; the gluteus maximus creates the rounded curve. Gluteal strains are common injuries among athletes. A muscle strain occurs when the fibers of the muscle pull away from the surrounding bone...
That’s not the only problem. Suturing a soft tissue such as a meniscus can be difficult when the suture is placed on a load-bearing part of the tissue. Having a material that sticks by itself to the tissue is therefore an interesting and potentially game-changing alternative. EPFL The hyd...