{"id":444020,"date":"2026-11-01T04:52:20","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T04:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/444020\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T04:52:20","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T04:52:20","slug":"naples-designed-arthrex-implant-wins-coolest-thing-made-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/444020\/","title":{"rendered":"Naples-designed Arthrex implant wins &#8216;Coolest Thing Made in Florida&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/1793508740_323_60bf8acd-f16c-4cd7-9b45-f2b974c5197e_1768274767.jpg\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Layza Pinero Resto\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>COLLIER COUNTY, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">An implant made by Arthrex, a company based in Naples, has won the second annual &#8220;Coolest Thing Made in Florida&#8221; competition.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">The product, called the TightRope PRO implant, is designed to be the next-generation solution for treating high-ankle injuries and ankle instability.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">Designed in Naples and manufactured in Ave Maria, the implant is primarily made to treat syndesmosis. The device took shape with a design that includes integrated suture tensioning handles an lower-profile button implants that allow for smaller bone-conserving tunnels.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">Arthrex beat out the St. John&#8217;s County-based Northrop Grumman, that created the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye, described by them as a &#8220;brand new warfighter aircraft and the latest in a 60-year lineage of warfighters.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">To learn more about the TightRope PRO, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arthrex.com\/foot-ankle\/syndesmosis-tightrope-pro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">DOWNLOAD\u202fthe free\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/qrco.de\/gcnapp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gulf Coast News app<\/a>\u202ffor your latest news and alerts on breaking news, weather, sports, entertainment, and more on your phone or tablet. And check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylocal.com\/wbbh-ft-myers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Very Local Gulf Coast app<\/a> to stream news, entertainment and original programming on your TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLLIER COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 An implant made by Arthrex, a company based in Naples, has won the second&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-444020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}