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Q: When did your knee pain start? A: It started about 5 years ago. I had arthroscopic surgery. My doctor said if I continued to have pain, I would have to get a replacement and of course that’s what I’m trying to avoid. Q: What did you previously use to treat the pain? A: I have physical therapy on my knee and body massages. I take Aleve twice a day. I tried putting heat and cold. Everything helps a little. Q: How has the pain affected your daily life? A: It’s hard to walk for any length of time. You…

Q: When did your knee pain start? A: I was former high school and college athlete. My area of athletics was gymnastics, which is very hard on a lot of joints. I also snow ski. A year ago my orthopedic surgeon went in an cleaned out the debris from the damage that I incurred. I have never had surgery on my right knee but I do have occasional right knee pain. Q: What did you previously use to treat the pain? A: Celebrex I take all the time. The knee pain is still there in spite of Celebrex. I no…

Q: When did your knee pain start? A: I was injured in the Fall of 2010 and I decided to take the conservative way and not get knee surgery. Q: What did you previously use to treat the pain? A: I wasn’t using any other treatments aside from wrapping up my knee in a bandage. It relieved the pain in the short term and it helped to stabilized my joints. Q: How has the pain affected your daily life? A: The pain was terrible, I didn’t exercise for months and the pain affected all aspects of my life. Q: How has…

Q: When did your knee pain start? A: It was a while back. St. Croix Orthopedics took an x-ray and it showed I didn’t have any cartilage in the knee. It’s very painful. Its like bone rubbing on bone. Q: What did you previously use to treat the pain? A: With my mother she had cortisone shots. They thought the cortisone shot would work because it worked for my mother. I tried the Cortisone shot and all it did was make it hurt more. Cortisone shots don’t work for me. My mother did surgery when she was 88 and ended up…

Q: When did your knee pain start? A: I had an OATS (Osteochondral Allograft Transplant Surgery) procedure performed a little less than a year ago. With this surgery there has been a lot of inflammation, and the pain is mainly due to that inflammation. I just started using the OrthoCor System about a month and a half ago about 6 weeks. Q: What did you previously use to treat the pain? A: My previous protocol has been icing my knee a handful of times throughout the day and using a lot of NSAIDS usually about 1500-2400mg of ibuprofen. I was…

Twin Cities Business November 30, 2012  Every year, nearly 20 million U.S. citizens visit their doctor complaining of knee pain. Many try treatments ranging from medication to physical therapy in an attempt to avoid invasive knee surgery. Recently, doctors have been suggesting a new option: an OrthoCor Medical-made brace that eases knee pain with pulsed electromagnetic field therapy. Founded in 2007, OrthoCor has made it to the finish line in its mission to win over patients, doctors, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), investors, and insurers with its brace. Since late summer, sales reps have been pounding the pavement…

Minnesota High Tech Association November 14, 2012 MHTA presented 2012 Tekne Awards to fifteen recipients at a ceremony November 1 at the Minneapolis Convention Center. Life Sciences (Small and Growing Company) – OrthoCor Medical OrthoCor Medical, a leading medical device company, aims to improve patient quality of life through the development and delivery of clinically proven, drug-free, non-invasive and mobile personal medical devices that alleviate pain and restore physical function. By combining pulsed electromagnetic field stimulation and thermal therapy for mitigating joint pain, its products return patients to an active lifestyle without the use of drugs or surgical procedures. Its first…