Recent progress of hydrogels as sports medical materials: characteristics, modification strategies and application prospects in sports.

IF 3.6 4区医学 Q2 ENGINEERING, BIOMEDICAL

Journal of Biomaterials Science, Polymer Edition Pub Date : 2025-07-20 DOI:10.1080/09205063.2025.2534688

Ping Shen, Jie Wu, Hao Han, Yunting Bai, Xixi Zhang, Ruipeng Shao

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Abstract

Hydrogels, innovative biomaterials defined by their three-dimensional porous structure, have attracted considerable attention in sports medicine for their unique physical and chemical properties. These properties enable applications in sports injury repair, sports health management, and sports injury protective equipment. By carefully selecting compositions, optimizing structures, and incorporating functional molecules or groups, these hydrogels can achieve enhanced biocompatibility, adhesion, tunable mechanical properties, and intelligent responsiveness, thereby better supporting sports medicine applications. Advances in hydrogel functionalization and performance modulation technologies have demonstrated their potential in applications such as intelligent ligaments, sports insoles, sports wound healing, artificial tendons, bone repair, coatings for sports medical devices, and motion monitoring. This review examines hydrogels with sports medical characteristics and their associated modification strategies. Additionally, this review discusses the current landscape and challenges of hydrogel applications in sports medicine, offering insights and direction for future research in this field.

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水凝胶运动医用材料研究进展：特点、改性策略及在运动中的应用前景

水凝胶是一种具有三维多孔结构的新型生物材料，以其独特的物理和化学性质在运动医学领域引起了广泛的关注。这些特性使运动损伤修复、运动健康管理和运动损伤防护设备的应用成为可能。通过精心选择组合物，优化结构，并加入功能分子或基团，这些水凝胶可以实现增强的生物相容性，粘附性，可调的机械性能和智能响应，从而更好地支持运动医学应用。水凝胶功能化和性能调节技术的进步已经证明了它们在智能韧带、运动鞋垫、运动伤口愈合、人工肌腱、骨修复、运动医疗设备涂层和运动监测等方面的应用潜力。本文综述了具有运动医学特征的水凝胶及其相关的修饰策略。此外，本文还讨论了水凝胶在运动医学中的应用现状和面临的挑战，为该领域未来的研究提供了见解和方向。

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Journal of Biomaterials Science, Polymer Edition 工程技术-材料科学：生物材料

CiteScore

7.10

自引率

5.60%

发文量

117

审稿时长

1.5 months

期刊介绍： The Journal of Biomaterials Science, Polymer Edition publishes fundamental research on the properties of polymeric biomaterials and the mechanisms of interaction between such biomaterials and living organisms, with special emphasis on the molecular and cellular levels. The scope of the journal includes polymers for drug delivery, tissue engineering, large molecules in living organisms like DNA, proteins and more. As such, the Journal of Biomaterials Science, Polymer Edition combines biomaterials applications in biomedical, pharmaceutical and biological fields.