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Emerging Orthobiologic Approaches to Ligament Injury

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Ligament injuries about the knee occur frequently during recreational and competitive sporting activities, and there is a wide array of treatment options to restore function and enable return-to-play. Interventions that utilize biologic therapy, or surgical augmentation with these biologic factors, may provide valuable additional therapeutic options to current methods typically used for treatment of these conditions. Cellular therapies have the potential to address deficiencies in the healing of injured ligaments by treating damaged tissue at a molecular level and by providing an environment that enhances reparative processes.

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    Alberto Gobbi & Graeme P. Whyte MD, MSc, FRCSC

  2. New York Presbyterian Hospital / Queens, New York, NY, USA

    Graeme P. Whyte MD, MSc, FRCSC

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  2. Clínica do Dragão, Espregueira-Mendes Sports Centre – FIFA Medical Centre of Excellence, Porto, Portugal

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  3. Musculoskeletal and Joint Research Foundation, San Diego, California, USA

    John G. Lane

  4. Department of Orthopedics, Acibadem University, Istanbul, Turkey

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Gobbi, A., Whyte, G.P. (2017). Emerging Orthobiologic Approaches to Ligament Injury. In: Gobbi, A., Espregueira-Mendes, J., Lane, J., Karahan, M. (eds) Bio-orthopaedics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-54181-4_24

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