Extremity Replacement Gaining on Hips & Knees (Biloine Young @ OTW)
Move over hips and knees—the extremities are coming. A report by Visiongain, a London-based business information firm, predicts that the global extremity devices market will be worth $2 billion by 2016, according to the report “World Market for Orthopaedic Extremity Devices 2012-2022,” published in April 2012.
The orthopedics sector of medical devices market has been driven, in recent years, by the artificial joint replacement and orthobiologics segments. Now, according to Visiongain, the fastest growing segment within the...