Next to cutting-edge surgical robots, advanced cancer detecting diagnostics and data-based platforms that may revolutionize health care, the treatment of bunions is not a “glamorous” medtech issue. Nonetheless, it is a potentially valuable surgical device market.
What are Bunions?
Bunions, or hallux valgus, are characterized by the gradual deformation of the metatarsophalangeal joint – by the big toe – and cause difficulties walking as well as falls for elderly patients.
They develop over a patient’s lifetime, so they mostly affect elderly patients, but approximately a quarter of all adults have one. Women are also more commonly afflicted – 30% versus 13% for men.
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It is this potential market that has attracted Johnson & Johnson/DePuy Synthes and Stryker – both of which have recently
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