Dr. Brian Cole discusses the novel OSSIO Kneebar procedure in an interview with SmartTRAK at OSET 2025 in Las Vegas.
Brian Cole, MD, orthopedic surgeon and sports medicine specialist at Rush Health System, discussed the OSSIO Kneebar procedure for the management of subchondral insufficiency fracture of the femur and tibia, utilizing the bio-integrative OSSIOFiber 4.0mm Cannulated Trimmable Fixation Nail, in an interview with SmartTRAK at the Orthopaedic Summit (OSET) 2025 Annual Meeting held September 18-25, 2025 in Las Vegas, NV.
To find out more about the OSSIO Kneebar procedure and what makes it so revolutionary, click on the following video (11:49 min). A link to download a complete transcript of the interview is also provided below.
Interview Transcript
Hi everybody, it's Andy Knapik with SmartTRAK. I'm here at the OSET meeting in Las Vegas and I'm joined with Dr. Brian Cole. Thanks for joining me today.
Dr. Brian Cole: Thanks for having me, Andy.
Yes. I've talked a lot in the past about OSSIO. They have some really great products and one of the products that's out now, it's called KneeBar. It's a very unique product. So I thought it'd be great if you, being so involved with the product, you could walk through it and tell us about it.
BC: Yes, so for clarity, KneeBar is probably what we would say the procedure, I guess is a KneeBar procedure.
Okay.
BC: The device itself is OSSIO fiber, so it's their core technology, which is I'd say bio-talented, bio-replaceable and gets replaced and/or turns into bone over time. So we know that's the construct for OSSIO fiber, and the device itself is a cannulated trimmable fixation nail.
So the KneeBar procedure basically is a procedure that will address ...
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