Prosthetics are artificial devices used to replace missing limbs lost due to birth defects or amputation. Aside from birth defects, medical conditions such as circulation problems, traumatic injuries, cancer, and diabetes can all result in limb amputation. The availability of innovative, personalised, technologically improved prosthetic legs, as well as their rising use, will drive the prosthetic legs industry forward in the near future. This market's expansion is being aided by novel technologies and enhanced materials. Many companies also offer customised Prosthetic Legs or components. More comfortable and effective prosthetic legs, such as carbon fibre prostheses, are now available on the market as a result of technical breakthroughs. These assist the wearer in performing otherwise strenuous tasks such as swimming, skydiving, completing triathlons, marathons, and so on.
Prominent Players in the Prosthetic legs Industry:
1. Pfizer, Inc.
Pfizer Inc. was founded in 1849 and is headquartered in New York, New York. Pfizer Inc. discovers, develops, manufactures, markets, distributes, and sell biopharmaceutical products worldwide. In December, 2022 announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) of their Omicron BA.4/BA.5-adapted bivalent COVID-19 vaccine as the third 3-µg dose in the three-dose primary series for children 6 months through 4 years of age. For the field of oncology such as Trastuzumab deruxtecan, Anti-HER3-ADC, Quizartinib, Milademetan, Valemetostat, Pexidartinib, Edoxaban, Prasugel, and Microgabalin. The company was founded on September 28, 2005 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan
2. Johnson & Johnson
Johnson & Johnson, together with its subsidiaries, researches, develops, manufactures, and sells various products in the healthcare field worldwide. Johnson & Johnson was founded in 1886 and is based in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
3. Abbvie, Inc.
AbbVie Inc. discovers, develops, manufactures, and sells pharmaceuticals worldwide. It has collaborations with Calico Life Sciences LLC; REGENXBIO Inc.; I-Mab Biopharma; Genmab A/S; Janssen Biotech, Inc.; and Genentech, Inc. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is headquartered in North Chicago, Illinois. In 2017, AbbVie, Biopharmaceutical Company in co-operation with Neurocrine Biosciences Inc submitted New Drug Application (NDA) to the U.S. Food and drug Administration (FDA) for a new drug named elagolix. It is an orally administering gonadotropin releasing hormone antagonist, which is being evaluated for management of pain associated with endometriosis. In August 2019, AbbVie, a biopharmaceutical company, received the U.S. approval for RINVOQ (upadacitinib), an oral JAK Inhibitor for the treatment of moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis.
4. F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG
Roche is a Swiss biopharmaceutical and diagnostic company. The firm's best-selling pharmaceutical products include a variety of oncology therapies from acquired partner Genentech, and its diagnostics group was bolstered by the acquisition of Ventana in 2008. Oncology products account for 50% of pharmaceutical sales, and centralized and point-of-care diagnostics for more than half of diagnostic-related sales. The company was founded in 1896, headquartered in Switzerland.
5. Merck & Co., Inc.
Merck & Co., Inc. operates as a healthcare company worldwide. It operates through two segments, Pharmaceutical and Animal Health. Merck & Co., Inc. was founded in 1891 and is headquartered in Kenilworth, New Jersey.
6. Amgen, Inc.
Amgen Inc. discovers, develops, manufactures, and delivers human therapeutics worldwide. It focuses on inflammation, oncology/hematology, bone health, cardiovascular disease, nephrology, and neuroscience areas. It has collaboration agreements with Novartis Pharma AG; UCB; Bayer HealthCare LLC; BeiGene, Ltd.; Eli Lilly and Company; Datos Health; and Verastem, Inc., Kyowa Kirin Co., Ltd. Neumora Therapeutics, Inc. and Plexium, Inc. Amgen Inc. was incorporated in 1980 and is headquartered in Thousand Oaks, California.
*Definition- Rheumatoid arthritis, or RA, is an autoimmune and inflammatory disease, which means that your immune system attacks healthy cells in your body by mistake, causing inflammation (painful swelling) in the affected parts of the body. RA mainly attacks the joints, usually many joints at once.
