Abstract
Orthopedic Sports Medicine involves the treatment of complex injuries in both the acute and chronic setting. Massive tears of soft tissue, large hard tissue breaks, or malalignments or catastrophic collapse of both soft and hard tissue structures require clever surgical intervention both as open or arthroscopic procedures. Small tears or fractures or resistant chronic, nonhealing, and often painful conditions are a challenge to the orthopedic practitioner. My prediction for the future is that cell-based therapies will provide the key to these clinically challenging situations. Specifically, the use of either autologous or allogeneic mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) can and will provide clinical solutions (Caplan 2009; Caplan and Correa 2011).
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