Suture anchors and screws that provide mechanical fixation are increasingly augmented to enhance bone-tendon repair in rotator cuff, ACL, Achilles tendon or gluteus medius. The AAS Clinical Practice Guidelines state strong evidence for bioinductive and bioconductive augmentation in rotator cuff repairs.

While biological grafts lead the market sector, there is increasing adoption of synthetic and biosynthetic alternatives that are more reproducible, affordable, and scalable.

Mimetix® and Symatix® electrospun scaffolds are designed to mimic the body’s own extracellular matrix and augment passive orthopaedic devices:

• Recruit and guide a patient’s own cells to populate the device and support tissue regeneration.
• Foster microenvironments that stimulate new blood vessel growth and to lay down collagen fibres.
• Resorb over time leaving remodelled native tissue.

Barrier membranes that create a protected space to allow osteogenic cells to repopulate defects while preventing infiltration by faster-growing soft tissue, are used in trauma repair, spinal fusion, and the treatment of complex orthopaedic defects. Read more here.

Mimetic® and Symatix® electrospun membranes are composed of interconnected micro- and nanofibres, creating a highly porous structure that resembles native extracellular matrix and provides several key advantages over conventional solid films or biological grafts:

• Restrict cellular infiltration while maintaining open pathways for fluid exchange. 
• High surface area for tissue interaction, protein adsorption and early cell attachment at the bone interface.
• Tuneable porosity and thickness allowing optimisation for different defect sizes and anatomical locations. 
• Flexibility and conformability with excellent surgical handling and defect coverage.