Resources
Resources
The podcasts, societies, and companies worth knowing in foot and ankle.
Societies
The organizations that run the meetings and set the agenda.
Education
Courses, references, and the sites people actually use.
Podcasts
What to listen to between cases.
Device Companies
- Acumed
INDEPENDENT
- Advita Ortho
INDEPENDENT
Launched Nov 2025 on the former Exactech assets, including the Vantage Ankle.
- Aztron Medtech
INDEPENDENT
- Conventus Orthopaedics
INDEPENDENT
- CurveBeam AI
INDEPENDENT
- Integra LifeSciences
PUBLIC
Sold its extremity orthopaedics business to Smith+Nephew for $240M in 2020-21; now principally biologics and neuro.
- Orthofix
PUBLIC
- Paragon 28
ACQUIRED BY ZIMMER BIOMET, 2025
Acquired by Zimmer Biomet in 2025; still operating under the Paragon 28 brand.
- Relja Medical
INDEPENDENT
- Restor3d
INDEPENDENT
- Subchondral Solutions
INDEPENDENT
Biologics & Wound Care
- Acera Surgical
INDEPENDENT
- Bio Tissue
INDEPENDENT
- Isto Biologics
INDEPENDENT
- Kerecis
INDEPENDENT
- MiMedx
PUBLIC
- Organogenesis
PUBLIC
- Sanara MedTech
PUBLIC
Where They Went
Twelve companies that got bought, and one that didn't make it.
- Advanced Orthopedic Solutions
ACQUIRED BY ARTHREX
- Avitus Orthopaedics
ACQUIRED BY ZIMMER BIOMET
- Exactech
DEFUNCT
Assets acquired out of restructuring and relaunched as Advita Ortho, Nov 2025.
- Flower Orthopedics
ACQUIRED BY CONVENTUS ORTHOPAEDICS, 2020