Tom Borg discusses ZuriMED and its new FDA-cleared product, FiberLocker, in an interview with SmartTRAK at AANA in Washington, DC.
ZuriMED Technologies’ Tom Borg discusses the company and its recently FDA-cleared product, FiberLocker, in an interview with SmartTRAK at the Arthroscopy Association of North America (AANA) Annual Meeting, held May 8-10, 2025, in Washington, DC.
To find out more about the company and its novel FiberLocker System, a combination product comprised of SpeedPatch, a synthetic, non-woven polyethylene terephthalate (PET) patch and FiberLocker Instrument, which delivers and fixates the patch onto the repaired tendon, listen to the following video (4:13 min). A link to download a transcript of the interview is also provided below.
SmartTRAK: Hi. This is Emily Meng with SmartTRAK, and I’m here with Tom from ZuriMED. Hi, Tom.
Tom Borg: Good morning, Emily.
Tom, why don’t you tell us about FiberLock System and how you differentiate it from your competitors.
TB: So, FiberLocker is unique in that it focuses on the mechanical component of what is typically the reason rotator cuff repairs fail. They fail usually at the suture tendon interface. And so there has been a lot of effort over the past 10 to 20 years in trying to augment the integrity of the rotator cuff with biologics and different suturing configurations. But the unfortunate truth is, the quality and consistency of the tendon still remains quite poor and compromised. So ZuriMED, with the help of some very talented engineers and a brilliant surgeon idea, developed a...
