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Biomaterials in Connective Tissue Regeneration and Rehabilitation

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Regenerative Rehabilitation

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Connective tissue encompasses a wide range of properties, including cell types, multi-scale structure, and mechanical properties, and thus, treatment modalities of each require distinct criteria for successful regeneration or rehabilitation. As a result, the role of biomaterials in treating injuries to these tissues has broadened to study a multitude of factors that may impact each individual’s ability to rehabilitate injured tissue and heal. This chapter focuses on the types of connective tissue, their unique properties, and their associated injuries and treatments; the structural, mechanical, and biological considerations for biomaterial application in each of these tissues are then highlighted. The chapter then discusses the role of these considerations on connective tissues to promote improved healing, tissue regeneration, and rehabilitation.

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Correspondence to Jay Milan Patel .

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Department of Veterans Affairs (IK1 RX003208, IK2 RX003928), Emory Department of Orthopaedics.

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Kowalski, M., Hasson, M., Hammond, K., Labib, S., Patel, J.M. (2022). Biomaterials in Connective Tissue Regeneration and Rehabilitation. In: Greising, S.M., Call, J.A. (eds) Regenerative Rehabilitation. Physiology in Health and Disease. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95884-8_9

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