Catalyst OrthoScience is counting on clinical research to show that its stemless shoulder arthroplasty system promotes faster healing and the restoration of a patient’s normal range of motion.
Shoulder arthroplasty technology has not changed much since Charles Neer first developed total shoulder implants in the 1950s and 1960s, Matthew Budge, an orthopedic surgeon with Kaiser Permanente in Oregon, explained to Medtech Insight. In the 1950s the only effective way to fix a metal shoulder joint into the humerus bone was to “take big piece of metal and stick it into the bone.”…
