Table of Contents

Background.- Musculoskeletal and Wound Treatment Through the Ages: A Brief Historical Tour.- Musculoskeletal Fundamentals: Form, Function, and a Survey of Healing Strategies.- Overview of Fracture Repair.- Hard Tissue Technologies.- Autograft Bone.- Biology of Bone Allograft and Clinical Application.- Demineralized Bone Matrix: Maximizing New Bone Formation for Successful Bone Implantation.- Deproteinized Bovine Bone Xenograft.- Bioactive Bioceramics.- Distraction Osteogenesis of the Orthopedic Skeleton: Basic Principles and Clinical Applications.- Distraction Osteogenesis of the Facial Skeleton.- Bone Morphogenetic Proteins and Other Bone Growth Factors.- Biological Approaches to Spinal Fusion.- Electrical Bone Stimulation.- Soft Tissue Technologies.- Meniscus Repair Techniques.- Lessons Learned From Our First 100 Meniscus Allograft Transplants in Arthritic Knees.- Tissue Engineering of the Meniscus.- Osteochondral Grafts.- Autologous Chondrocyte Cartilage Repair.- Autograft and Allograft ACL Reconstruction: Construct Rationale.- Tissue Engineered Anterior Cruciate Ligament Graft.- Biologic Scaffold Materials for Orthopaedic Soft Tissue Reconstruction.- Muscle Repair after Injury and Disease.- Generalized Approaches.- Principles of Musculoskeletal Tissue Banking.- Bioabsorbable Polymer Applications in Musculoskeletal Fixation and Healing.- Tissue Adhesives: Science, Products, and Clinical Use.- Platelet-Rich Plasma in Orthopedics.- Gene Therapy Approaches for Musculoskeletal Tissue Regeneration.- Paradigms of Tissue Engineering with Applications to Cartilage Regeneration.- The Future.- The Future of Musculoskeletal Tissue Regeneration: A Clinical Perspective.

Reviews

From the reviews: "This comprehensively edited text from experts in the area, covers both background information into the biology of musculoskeletal conditions and fracture repair, and techniques which may be used both for bone and soft tissue. ! The text is well written and is certainly thought-provoking for people researching in this area, perhaps more so for musculoskeletal researchers than for practising clinicians. It should certainly occupy the shelves of libraries with vigorous academic departments." (Andrew Carr, Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, June, 2009)