Smith+Nephew’s Sports Medicine & ENT business unit leads with innovative procedural solutions to elevate the standard of care.
We operate in growing markets where unmet clinical needs provide opportunities for procedural and technological innovation. We have a rich history of product development in Sports Medicine, and our technologies, instruments and implants enable surgeons to perform minimally invasive surgery, treating soft tissue injuries and degenerative conditions of the shoulder, knee, hip and small joints.
In Sports Medicine Joint Repair (SMJR), we develop products for rotator cuff repair (RCR) and instability repair in the shoulder to help address pain and restore function. In knee repair, our All Tears, All Repairs Meniscal Repair portfolio provides surgeons with unsurpassed options and possibilities for meniscal repair, a novel technology for knee cartilage and osteochondral defects, and a comprehensive ligament portfolio. Our hip preservation portfolio delivers a broad set of technologies and techniques addressing all capsular management needs. We are also committed to redefining healing potential in gluteus medius repair and capsular augmentation.
Our Foot and Ankle portfolio for soft tissue repair includes comprehensive solutions for ankle instability and Achilles reconstruction.
In Arthroscopic Enabling Technologies (AET), our products facilitate arthroscopic surgical procedures, providing a strong foundation of platforms and associated consumables, including visualisation, fluid management, COBLATION◊ technology and mechanical resection.
Our growing ENT business unit is driven by emerging therapies and changes in the point of care, mainly to the office setting, and increasing global access for these procedures.
We offer a portfolio of technologies focused on the unmet needs for both common and advanced procedures hat general and paediatric ENT surgeons perform today. These include tonsillectomies, epistaxis (severe nose bleeds) and tympanostomies (insertion of ear tubes).
In Ear, Nose & Throat (ENT) we provide low temperature technologies to remove tonsils and adenoids, epistaxis solutions and in-office solution for placement of tympanostomy or ear tubes.
Burn wound management Burn wounds are a global public health problem and a leading cause of morbidity, including prolonged hospitalisation, disfigurement and disability – often accompanied by stigma and social rejection.1 Our aim is to help mitigate the complications associated with burn wounds.
Pressure injury prevention Trusted to reduce the incidence of pressure injuries when used as part of a comprehensive prevention program, compared to standard care alone.1-3
Partial-thickness rotator cuff tears Partial-thickness tears can have a lasting impact on pain and shoulder function. When used in isolated bioinductive repair, the REGENETEN◊ Bioinductive Implant leads to tendon healing without the need for sutured repair;1-4 offering patients a faster recovery and return to activity than sutured repairs.4,5
Chondral and osteochondral knee repair Treat knee cartilage lesions and osteochondral defects in a single-stage procedure, even in the presence of mild to moderate osteoarthritis (Kellgren-Lawrence 0-3),1,2 with the porous, biocompatible CARTIHEAL◊ AGILI-C◊ Cartilage Repair Implant; shown to be clinically superior to the current surgical standard of care in level 1 clinical data.*1,2