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CoNextions Inc. (www.conextionsmed.com), an innovator in tendon repair, announced today the first patient has been treated with the Coronet Soft Tissue Fixation System in a Kidner procedure. The Kidner procedure is the most common surgical treatment for a painful accessory navicular bone that causes foot/te
CoNextions Inc. (www.conextionsmed.com) announced today that it received a 510(k) clearance (K200028) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for CoronetTM System, a tenodesis product intended for the fixation of tissue to bone and tissue to tissue. The Coronet’s novel design improves the soft tissue fixatio
A 17-year-old male patient with a severed extensor tendon of his thumb due to traumatic injury became the first outside of a clinical trial to undergo tendon repair with CoNextions Medical’s TR Tendon Repair device since the product’s recent approval in Chile, the first country to approve the device.
“[The CoNextions TR] device is an excellent alternative [to suture],” said Hernan Vielma, MD at Clinica Bupa Santiago, Chile.
CoNextions Medical, a developer of novel soft tissue repair devices, announced today that it has completed enrollment in a key clinical trial for its pioneering tendon-to-tendon repair device, CoNextions TR. Pending successful results of the trial, the company plans to submit a 510(k) application to the FDA for US marketing approval in the first quarter of 2020.
CoNextions Inc. (www.conextionsmed.com) announced today that its has enrolled its first two patients in a multicenter, blinded, randomized clinical trial comparing the CoNextions TR System to standard of care suture repair for repair of Zone 2 tendon lacerations. The first two patients were enrolled at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. Five fellowship trained hand surgeons will enroll eighty patients at four differ
CoNextions Medical (www.conextionsmed.com) has announced that Attila Poka, one of the most experienced and internationally known surgeons in Orthopaedic Trauma, has joined CoNextions Medical as CoNextions Medical’s Chief Medical Officer beginning September 1st, 2016. Dr. Poka was previously Chief of Orthopaedic Trauma at Grant Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio and Clinical Professor of Orthopaedic Trauma of Ohio University. Prior to moving to Columbus, Ohio in 1993, Dr. Poka held nu
Dan Gruppo, the Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Stryker Upper Trauma and Extremities at Stryker Orthopaedics, Joins CoNextions Medical as Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing as CoNextions Prepares for its anticipated FDA Clearance and the Launch of its Revolutionary CoNextions TR Device in the United States
CoNextions Medical (www.conextionsmed.com) has announced that Dan Gruppo, one of the most ex
In 2011, Erik Kubiak, M.D., an orthopaedic trauma and adult reconstruction surgeon and Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Utah, co-founded CoNextions Medical to treat tendon repairs differently than traditional, suture-based methods.
Earlier this year, the company received the Utah Innovation Award in the Life Sciences – Medical Device category for its sutureless tendon repair technology, a non-triggering, biocompatible device that removes kno
CoNextions Medical, Inc. (conextionsmed.com) announced that it will premiere their next generation tendon repair technology, CoNextions TR, at the 70th annual scientific meeting of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand (ASSH) in Seattle.
CoNextions TR has been designed to provide several advantages over the current suture-based repair which is the standard of care, including: stronger repair strength to enable early active motion; consistent and standardized outcomes; a si