“To offer highly valued, innovative and minimally invasive solutions to medical needs with a focus on the treatment of patients in orthopedics. We shall ask ourselves everyday what we have done to delight our customers.”
Orthofix Worldwide
We are a diversified orthopedic products company offering a broad line of minimally invasive surgical, as well as nonsurgical, products for the spine, orthopedic reconstruction and trauma, vascular and sports medicine market sectors. Our products are designed to address the lifelong bone-and-joint health needs of patients of all ages, helping them achieve a more active and mobile lifestyle. We design, develop, manufacture, market and distribute medical equipment used principally by musculoskeletal medical specialists for orthopedic applications.
Our main products are noninvasive stimulation products used to enhance the success rate of spinal fusions and to treat nonunion fractures, external and internal fixation devices used in fracture treatment, limb lengthening and bone reconstruction, and bracing products used for ligament injury prevention, pain management and protection of surgical repair to promote faster healing.
Our products also include a device for enhancing venous circulation, cold therapy, other pain management products, bone cement and devices for removal of the bone cement used to fix artificial implants and airway management products used in anesthesia applications.
We have administrative and training facilities in the United States, the United Kingdom and Italy and manufacturing facilities in the United States, the United Kingdom, Italy, Mexico and the Seychelles. We directly distribute our products in the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, France, Belgium, Mexico, Brazil, and Puerto Rico. In several of these and other markets, we also distribute our products through independent distributors.
Orthofix NV Sales Growth
Orthofix Group
Orthofix was founded in Verona in 1980. Over the last twenty years, it has significantly grown due to a series of acquisitions*, thus becoming a group of companies specialized in the design and manufacture of orthopedic medical devices and focused on the training of the Orthofix medical device users.
*Acquisitions
NOVAMEDIX - Foot Pump for DVT (A-V Impulse System) (1992)
ORTHOSONICS - Ultrasound Technology (1993)
AME - Now Orthofix Inc. - Bone Growth Stimulators, Bone Substitute, US Sales and Distribution Organization. (1995)
Kinesis - Ambulatory spinal unloading for back pain (2000)
Breg - Bracing, Pain Management, Cold Therapy (2003)
Blackstone Medical - Spinal Implants (2006)
Other Groups: BREG, AV-I, OPED
Products and Services
Spine Products
Cervical-Stim, Spinal-Stim, Orthotrac: noninvasive, preoperative and postoperative products to stabilize, unload the spine, and to enhance bone fusion.
Orthopedic Reconstruction Products
ISKD Lengthener, LRS Rail Lengthening System, Hybrid Fixators, Sheffield Ring Fixator, eight-Plate Guided Growth System: for lengthening and correction of bone deformities.
Orthopedic Trauma Products
Contours VPS: anatomically designed plating system.
CentroNail and VeroNail Nailing Systems: versatile nailing systems covering upper and lower extremity indications.
Orthofix Fixation System: the best biomechanical conditions in each step of the healing process.
Gotfried PC.C.P Percutaneous Compression Plating: minimally invasive method of fracture stabilization and fixation.
Vascular Products
A-V Impulse: DVT prevention and reduction of edema without the use of invasive pharmaceuticals
Sports Medicine & Pain Management Products
Fusion XT: soft bracing device that combines an impact-resistant frame design with lightweight, high-strength 2024-tempered aluminum
XK2: the most versatile brace of the X2K family, available in custom functional knee braces that protect the knee and work in tandem with movement at the joint
e-PAINCARE: mechanical, single-use, ambulatory infusion pumps for management of postoperative pain
POLAR CARE: Polar pads designed to treat all areas of the body following injury, trauma or surgery
Orthofix Education Center
One of the main priorites at Orthofix is to offer professional training to those who use our products. Approximately 1,000 surgeons from all over the world attend seminars at our locations in Verona, Italy; McKinney, Texas and Vista, California.
Academic Collaborations
In addition to its commitment to education, Orthofix cooperates with prestigious universities, like the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in North Carolina and the Verona University in Italy, working close with surgeons for the development of new trauma and reconstruction products.
