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If I were to ask you if your current golf game is as good as you would like it to be, what would you say? If your game is not up to the standards you feel it could be at, what parts of your game are you

According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product

working on to try and get better? When you really break it down, there are three main areas that you can work on to improve your game:

Technical - Mastering the technical execution of the golf swing t

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

produce an efficient and repeatable swing.

Mental/Emotional - Having the focus and mental toughness to handle the highs and lows of golf.

Physical - Ensuring that you body is properly conditioned to

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

prevent injury and generate explosive power consistently. Your technical proficiency down the stretch also depends greatly on your conditioning levels.

For most people looking to improve their game the

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

first choice mentioned above, technical, is the most common game improvement strategy. Logic tells us that if we continue to practice then we are bound to get better.

Unfortunately, the average golfer'

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

s idea of practicing is beating balls with no purpose in mind, not taking mental note of what is and is not working, wasting our time and doing more harm to our game than good. I can say all this becaus

ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc

I use to practice like that and found that it was very inefficient and unproductive.

For most golfers the technical component of the golf swing is not their weakest link. Rather, it is the physical co

easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi

mponent that typically is weakest, which leads to an inconsistent swing, reduced power, rapidly decreasing energy levels, greater chance of injury, sore/painful joints and the inability to significantly

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

improve their game.

Consider this quote from Tiger Woods on how golf specific conditioning has improved his game. "When I first became a professional I didn't have the strength to execute some of the s

and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ

hots I can do today. A lot of what I've been able to accomplish in golf is the direct result of becoming physically stronger."

Now let me ask you how your game would change if, every hole, after you hi

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

your drive, I was to move your ball 30 yards further up the fairway towards the green? Think would start hitting those second shots closer to the pin, have more birdie opportunities and shoot some bett

ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

er scores? Well, it is completely within your power to take your current drives and add on another 30+ yards to where they are currently landing.

Golf specific conditioning truly is on the cutting edge

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

of overall game improvement strategies. The physical component of the golf game is often ignored and hence, is the area for greatest and most immediate improvement for most golfers (2,3,6). It is also a

cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

n excellent strategy to reduce the risk of lower back injuries associated with the golf swing (1,2,4,5,7).

Hopefully after reading this article you will realize that there are many ways to improve your

tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen

golf game and that conditioning your body is a critical component in taking your game to the next level.

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As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel

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As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de

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tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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