Jean-Claude Guimberteau, MD

Jean-Claude Guimberteau, MD, is co-founder and former scientific director of the Institut Aquitain de la Main, and past president of the French Society for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. He has developed the profession's knowledge of the structure and function of tendon physiology, and pioneered techniques for secondary flexor tendon repair. His innovative use of videoendoscopy to investigate fascia in vivo resulted in his text Architecture of Human Living Fascia (Handspring Publishing, 2015), from which this article is adapted.