ABSTRACT

The link between human and animal disease, together with the widespread use of regenerative therapies in veterinary medicine has created an invaluable repository of data and biological understanding that can be used for the development of human orthopedic therapies. In this chapter, we focus on the current use of regenerative therapies in horses and dogs, which are the species with diseases, lifestyles and access to advanced orthopedic healthcare most similar to us. Similar to in human medicine, osteoarthritis and tendinopathy are the two orthopedic diseases most commonly treated with regenerative therapies in our veterinary patients. The chapter synthesizes the experimental and clinical research findings, and how these advances can be applied 59to human pathophysiology.