A rationale for the existence of Pediatric Prosthetics Incorporated

   Nationally, fitting prosthetics is a $2,000,000,000 (two billion dollar) per year undertaking. *

    Pediatric prosthetic consumers (age 0 through 14) comprise only 5% of the whole.  ($100,000,000)

   The vast majority of pediatric prosthetic fittings derive from children born with a limb loss.

   These pediatric fittings needs are widely dispersed in our overall national population. (They represent the proverbial “needles in the haystack”.)

   Looked at from a different perspective, there are approximately 145,000 amputations suggesting first time prosthetics fitting each year, of which less than 1,000 are babies born with a limb loss.   Less than 1% of the total.

   The vast majority of overworked “Prosthetists”, (there are only 5,400 of them, nationally**), work out of a single clinic with an intensely local focus.

   They build their local practice upon referrals from the local medical doctors who perform amputations, and the overwhelming majority of those amputations are performed upon adults.

    The local practice then is defined as a “general practice”, and that general practice is defined as an “adult practice” with only a 1% nod toward the special needs of small children.....at best.

Our Role (Niche)

   No other prosthetics provider is focusing upon the unique needs of the children and their families.

   Any company that chooses to address this market must do so on a national scale, and create a national presence, in order to serve this geographically diffuse population. Pediatric Prosthetics Inc. is the vehicle conceived and designed to fill that role.

    *Prosthetics Industry overview:

     These statistics are derived from a three-year study performed by a partnership of

     Johns Hopkins Medical School, The U.S. Center for Disease Control, and The

     Amputee Coalition of America. ( The full 3 year study results, with graphs, are

     available via e-mail, or at the Amputee Coalition web-site.)

    **Prosthetists in practice: This number was derived in an interview with the President of The American Board of Certification (prosthetists),                 

        Lance Hoxie.