Warsaw, IN, May 4, 2011 — Biomet, Inc. announced today that its Sports Medicine business unit has received the 2011 Medical Design Excellence Award (MDEA) for the outstanding product design of its JuggerKnot™ Soft Anchor. The MDEA program honored 37 medical
products with the award, four of which are implants. The JuggerKnot™ Soft Anchor is
designed to allow surgeons to reattach soft tissue to bone in multiple locations in the body,
and represents the next generation of suture anchor technology. Unlike conventional metal
and plastic devices, the JuggerKnot™ Soft Anchor is made entirely from suture, allowing for
substantially less bone removal. The smaller anchor diameter allows multiple anchors to
be placed in various anatomical locations.
“The JuggerKnot™ Soft Anchor is a giant step forward in suture anchor technology. It
features a unique combination of high strength and small size in an all‐suture design,”
noted Kevin Stone, Biomet Sports Medicine’s Vice President of Research and Development.
“The JuggerKnot™ Soft Anchor provides features not available in metal and plastic anchors
to repair soft tissue and helps patients get on the road to recovery.”
The Medical Design Excellence Awards (MDEA) competition (www.MDEAwards.com) is the
only award program that exclusively recognizes contributions and advances in the design
of medical products. Entries are evaluated on the basis of their design and engineering
features, including innovative use of materials, user‐related functions that improve
healthcare delivery and change traditional medical attitudes or practices, features that
provide enhanced benefits to the patient, and the ability of the product development team
to overcome design and engineering challenges so that the product meets its clinical
objectives.
An impartial, multidisciplinary panel of third‐party jurors with expertise in biomedical
engineering, human factors, industrial design, medicine and diagnostics conducted a
comprehensive review of the entries.
The 2011 Medical Design Excellence Award winners will be honored at a presentation
ceremony on Wednesday, June 8, 2011, at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New
York City in conjunction with the Medical Design & Manufacturing (MD&M) East 2011
Conference and Exposition.
Source: Biomet
published: May 4, 2011 in: Biomet