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Orthopedic Research in the Year 2025

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By the year 2025, it is anticipated that advancements in telemedicine and imaging technologies will significantly enhance the diagnostic aspect of medicine. However, effective treatment of diseases will continue to lag as it is much more challenging and slower to develop. As such, there will be immense opportunities for scientific and clinical investigators to reduce the gap between diagnosis and treatment. In this chapter, the history of the practice of orthopedic surgery will be reviewed to show how fundamental research had helped surgeons and rehabilitation technologists in sports medicine to improve clinical management of patients. Then, a number of examples will be given to illustrate those current advances made for healing of ligaments and tendons. Discussion will focus on functional tissue engineering using both biological and mechanical augmentation, demonstrated by the latest development of biodegradable metallic materials. Finally, key areas of research will be identified, including stem cell biology and its clinical applications, molecular and other imaging modalities, and cellular and molecular biomechanics, as well as traditional tissue and joint biomechanics. As scientific research is becoming more complex as well as multidisciplinary, it will be suggested how the research laboratories need to be organized so that collaborative work can be done effectively to overcome the challenges ahead.

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    Savio L.-Y. Woo, Kwang E. Kim & Kathryn F. Farraro

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Woo, S.LY., Kim, K.E., Farraro, K.F. (2015). Orthopedic Research in the Year 2025. In: Doral, M.N., Karlsson, J. (eds) Sports Injuries. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36569-0_249

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