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Orthopaedic Research in the Year 2020

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By the year 2020, it is anticipated that telemedicine will become widely available so that special medical and surgical expertise can be made available worldwide. Also, novel imaging technologies will further increase our diagnostic capabilities dramatically. These and other new technologies will no doubt enhance the diagnostic aspect of medicine. However, effective treatment of diseases will continue to be lacking as it is much slower and more challenging to develop. In other words, there will be huge opportunities for scientific and clinical investigators to reduce the gap between diagnosis and treatment. In this chapter, we will review the history of the practice of orthopaedic surgery and how fundamental research had helped surgeons and rehabilitation technologists, especially those involved in the practice of sports medicine. We will then give examples of current advances made on healing of tendons and ligaments especially those by functional tissue engineering and how it has played a major role in translating the laboratory findings to the clinics. Finally, as scientific research is becoming more sophisticated as well as multidisciplinary, we identify key areas of research that would deserve our focus and suggest how the specialty laboratories should be organized to conduct collaborative work effectively.

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Woo, S.LY., Kim, K.E. (2012). Orthopaedic Research in the Year 2020. In: Doral, M. (eds) Sports Injuries. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15630-4_160

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