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Stryker opened their new Fort Lauderdale. Fla.-based Mako Education Center designed to train surgeons in robotic orthopedic surgery, the South Florida Business Journal reported. The center is the only one of its kind dedicated to training surgeons in robotics.

K2M received FDA 510(k) clearance and a CE Mark for its Cayman United Plate System after completion of its first surgical cases.

Here are three sports medicine physicians who recently joined new practices or took on new positions:

Tyber Medical, based in Bethlehem, Pa., is an orthopedic device manufacturer.

MARS Bioimaging's large bore spectral scanner currently in development creates detailed 3D, full-color X-rays, allowing surgeons to peek inside a patient's body without having to operate, BGR reported.

Developer Cedar Fair recently broke ground on the Lee C. Jewett Sports Medicine Center at the Cedar Point Sports Center in Sandusky, Ohio, The Port Clinton News Herald reports.

Cheyenne (Wyo.) Regional Medical Center is the first hospital in the state to add Mazor Robotics' Mazor X system to its spinal surgery program.

The final patient was treated in clinical trials for Active Implants' NUsurface Meniscus Implant.

The American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine is taking applications for a grant to fund early osteoarthritis and/or OA progression prevention research, according to Philanthropy News Digest.

The Surgical Review Corp. named Napa, Calif.-based Queen of the Valley Hospital a Center of Excellence in Robotic Surgery.