While the field of medicine has gained the sophistication and expertise to solve the mystery behind the Corona virus global threat and created a vaccine to cure it, there are still unmet needs when it comes to complex injuries of the extremities. These injuries, including the terrible triad of the elbow, trimalleolar ankle fractures, complex shoulder girdle injuries, and complex scapholunate injuries, pose challenges to surgeons due in large part to the variations in the way they present from patient to patient.

Acumed, a medical device company with over 30 years of experience, focuses on these complex injuries and provides a comprehensive line of medical devices to treat them. The company, which started with an R&D focus, now provides products for the hand and upper extremity, foot and ankle, tendon and ligament repair, orthobiologics, trauma, craniomaxillofacial, and rib and sternum continues to grow as an innovation and technology leader.

Acumed creates orthopedic implants and instruments to treat traumatic injuries and degenerative conditions for optimal patient outcomes and restoration of function. In the case of fracture fixation, Acumed claims to be the industry-first for numerous anatomically contoured plating systems. Sharon Wolfington, President and CEO of Acumed, describes the benefit of these plating systems: “When a surgeon reduces a fracture, they are setting the bone pieces in close proximity so that healing can occur. Our pre-contoured plates match the average human anatomy, which is designed to reduce surgical time, improve accuracy, and provide surgeons with a reduction guide.”

Traumatic and complex injuries often damage tendons and ligaments supporting fractured bones. The company has a full solution approach, with fracture fixation and reconstruction solutions that repair the injured bone and products that reattached or repair associated to damaged tendons and ligaments.

Acumed offers an anatomic radial head solution, which is used when an elbow injury is so complex that the patient’s native radial head must be replaced, ideally with a device that mimics the patient’s natural anatomy. Wolfington notes, “We recently launched an upgraded anatomic radial head and have been able to convert 75 percent of our customers, suggesting that surgeons value the anatomic improvements of our new system, which are designed to provide surgeons with numerous options to meet in situ challenges for optimal patient outcomes.” She adds, “We have over 900 head and stem combinations in our ARH2 solution that highly skilled surgeons can use to customize our implants for a specific patient.”

A highlight of Acumed’s range of solutions, the Acutrak screw is the first and still the only one of its kind.