Using its unique resources, Warsaw, Ind.-based OrthoPediatrics continues to grow the pediatric orthopedic devices market, according to Today's Medical Developments.
Here are six things to know:
1. OrthoPediatrics has grown at a 32 percent rate over the past five years, with 20 percent of its sales coming from outside the U.S.
2. The company has received clearance for 18 surgical systems for trauma, long bone deformity and correction, scoliosis and sports medicine.
3. Children benefit more from pediatric devices and implants as opposed to adult devices.
4. Early on in its existence, OrthoPediatrics obtained exclusive rights to the Cleveland Museum of Natural History's Hamann-Todd Human Osteological Collection, which has the world's largest documented collection of modern human skeletal remains.
5. Having access to this resource allows the company to understand the curvature of children's bones, which can be30 percent more curved than adult bones.
6. OrthoPediatrics makes its devices with stainless steel instead of titanium so that they don't stick to bones and are easier to remove without violating vascular structure as children grow.
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