Prosthetic component manufacturers worldwide

How to read this list

A prosthesis is not one product. It is a set of modules from several manufacturers, assembled by a clinic around a socket made for one person. The knee may be German, the foot Icelandic, the liner American, the adapters Korean, and the socket is made in a clinic in Poland.

For each company we give the country, what it makes and the channel through which its products reach Poland. That channel may be confirmed, unconfirmed, or may not exist at all.

A confirmed channel. The company has a subsidiary, a representative or a distributor in Poland that we confirmed at source. The channel itself is described on the distributors page.

An unconfirmed channel. The brand appears in Polish clinics' supplier declarations, but we have not confirmed its Polish channel. Usually that means the clinic imports the component directly, for one specific order.

No channel. The manufacturer does not sell into Poland in any organised way. That does not mean the component cannot be obtained, only that everything depends on whether a particular clinic is willing to import it and how it handles service.

There are no ratings, no ranking and no prices here. Companies are grouped by what they make and listed alphabetically within each group.

Polish companies with a product of their own are covered separately, on the page about producers in Poland.

Lower and upper limb

Companies making components for both limbs.

BrainRobotics

Kneuro, a microprocessor knee. The company was founded in 2015 at the Harvard Innovation Labs near Boston by Harvard graduates, and names graduates of Harvard and MIT as the developers of Kneuro. It is part of the BrainCo group, which moved its headquarters to Hangzhou in China in 2018 and keeps operations near Boston. A brand with no equivalent from the other suppliers on the Polish market.

Into Poland: a confirmed channel, through WJT Ortho.

Scope: lower and upper limb. brainrobotics.com

Fillauer

United States, Chattanooga. A group of several brands: Fillauer itself, with feet, knees and adapters, and Hosmer Dorrance, Centri and Motion Control on the upper limb side. Motion Control makes the Utah Arm 3 and 3+ myoelectric elbow, the ETD2 electric terminal device and the Motionfoot MX. The group also distributes other companies' brands on the US market: the TASKA hands and, since September 2025, the Zeus S hand from Aether Biomedical of Poznań.

Into Poland: a confirmed channel, through Ortocentrum.

Scope: lower and upper limb. fillauer.com

Össur

Iceland, since 1971, today part of the Embla Medical group. The Rheo Knee and Power Knee, plus the waterproof Navii introduced in 2025, the Pro-Flex family of feet including the newer Pro-Flex Terra, Proprio Foot and Cheetah, Iceross liners and the Direct Socket system. Since the acquisition of the Scottish company Touch Bionics, also the i-Limb hands and i-Digits fingers.

Into Poland: a confirmed channel, through Össur Polska with an office in Kraków.

Scope: lower and upper limb. ossur.com

Ottobock

Germany, since 1919. The C-Leg, Genium, Genium X3 and Kenevo microprocessor knees plus the Genium X4 unveiled in May 2024, the Taleo, Triton, Evanto and Empower feet, the bebionic and Michelangelo hands, the MyoBock system with electrodes, wrists and elbows, Skeo and Uneo liners, adapters and socket systems.

Into Poland: a confirmed channel, through its own subsidiary Otto Bock Polska. The company also runs its own prosthetic clinics in Poland.

Scope: lower and upper limb. ottobock.com

Proteor

France, a group based in Dijon. Under its own brand it makes the QUATTRO microprocessor knee, also available in the newer QUATTRO 2 version, and SYNSYS, a microprocessor knee-ankle system that couples both joints to hip movement. Beyond that, feet and paediatric components. In 2020 the group took over the business of the American company Freedom Innovations, which Ottobock had been ordered to divest by the US competition authority, and with it the Plié 3 knee and the Kinnex and Kinterra ankles. The group also owns the Rush line of feet, made of a glass and carbon composite and resistant to water.

Into Poland: a confirmed channel, through Ortocentrum, together with the Rush line and Freedom Innovations, listed separately.

Scope: lower and upper limb. proteor.com

Streifeneder

Germany, Bavaria. Feet, knees and adapters, and beyond that clinic materials and semi-finished parts for building sockets. For a clinic the second reason matters more than the first.

Into Poland: a confirmed channel, through Ortocentrum.

Scope: lower and upper limb. streifeneder.de

Teufel

Germany, Wangen, a company active in orthopaedics for over a hundred and sixty years. Its own prosthetics catalogue covers below-knee, above-knee and upper limb liners, suspension sleeves, locks, valves and elevated vacuum, feet, modular adapters, knee joints, waterproof and paediatric components, and foam cosmeses.

Into Poland: a confirmed channel, through its own subsidiary WJT Ortho in Myślenice. Poland is one of only two countries in Europe where Teufel has its own staff.

Scope: lower and upper limb.

Beyond its own catalogue the company handles four external brands in Poland, covered on the page about distributors.

Lower limb

Blatchford

United Kingdom, a company whose line goes back to 1890, also known under the Endolite name. The Orion3 microprocessor knee and Linx, a system in which knee and foot run under shared control. The KX07 hydraulic knee and the BMK2 and ESK+ mechanical knees, introduced in 2022. The Echelon feet, the microprocessor-controlled Elan and ElanIC, and the BladeXT for running.

Into Poland: a confirmed channel, through Ortocentrum.

Scope: lower limb. blatchfordmobility.com

College Park

United States, Warren, Michigan, founded in 1988. Feet with an articulated ankle: Trustep, Soleus, the heel-height adjustable Accent, the paediatric Truper, and Odyssey K2 and K3 with a hydraulic ankle. Beyond that, modular components, liners and sleeves. Since June 2020 it has been owned outright by the Össur group and is still run under its own name. In the same transaction the Espire elbow line went to the British company Steeper and is no longer a College Park product.

Into Poland: a confirmed channel, through Össur Polska.

Scope: lower limb. college-park.com

Levitate

Denmark. The Forever range of feet, Blade running prostheses and quick-change adapters.

Into Poland: a confirmed channel, through WJT Ortho.

Scope: lower limb.

Lindhe Xtend

Sweden. Components and adapters for the lower limb.

Into Poland: a confirmed channel, through Ortocentrum.

Scope: lower limb.

Nabtesco

Japan. The ALLUX 2 microprocessor knee and hydraulic knees. Well known in Asia, present only narrowly in Europe.

Into Poland: a confirmed channel, through the German wholesaler Ortho-Reha Neuhof, which covers Poland with field representatives.

Scope: lower limb. nabtesco.com

Reboocon Bionics

The Netherlands. The Intuy Knee, a powered knee that actively supplies force when standing up and climbing stairs. That is a different category from a microprocessor knee, which only brakes.

Into Poland: a confirmed channel, through WJT Ortho.

Scope: lower limb. rbionics.com

ST&G

South Korea. Adapters, rotation units, load-bearing parts and feet. A manufacturer invisible to the user but important to the technician, because its components are often what holds a prosthesis together.

Into Poland: a confirmed channel, through Ortocentrum.

Scope: lower limb.

Wagner, Orliman, Orto Europe

Three brands present in the Ortocentrum catalogue, with a narrower prosthetics range than most companies in this directory.

Into Poland: a confirmed channel, through Ortocentrum.

Scope: lower limb.

WillowWood

United States, Ohio, a family company since 1907. The Alpha family of liners in several variants, among them Classic, Basic, Hybrid and Design, plus feet, knees and suspension systems.

Into Poland: a confirmed channel, through WJT Ortho, the Polish subsidiary of the German company Teufel.

Scope: lower limb. willowwood.com

Liners, suspension and sockets

This is the layer that touches the skin, and it decides everyday comfort more than any mechanical module.

ALPS

United States, since 1988. Gel and silicone liners, suspension sleeves, locks, vacuum systems, plus the BioStep feet and the ProStride knee.

Into Poland: a confirmed channel, through the ALPS South Europe branch in the Czech Republic, with no company and no representative in Poland. The company runs a Polish version of its website and a catalogue in Polish.

Scope: lower limb. easyliner.eu

Coyote Design

United States. Locks, suspension systems, lanyards and socket hardware.

Into Poland: an unconfirmed channel. The brand appears in Polish clinics' supplier lists.

Scope: lower limb.

Romedis, Click Medical, Martin Bionics

Germany and the United States. Systems for making and adjusting sockets, including casting under load, adjusting circumference during use, and open socket frames.

Into Poland: no confirmed channel. This is the area where the gap between what exists worldwide and what is realistically available in Poland is widest, even though for everyday comfort the socket matters more than the choice of foot.

Scope: lower limb.

Silipos, Knit-Rite, ESP

United States and United Kingdom. Gel pads, prosthetic socks, prosthetic textiles and composite liners. A segment where much of the supply reaches clinics outside organised channels.

Into Poland: an unconfirmed channel.

Scope: lower limb.

Upper limb

This market follows its own rules. There are far fewer patients, the devices cost more, and public funding realistically covers passive and body-powered prostheses. The result is that a fair number of brands are formally available, but the route to them usually runs through funding from outside the system.

Coapt

United States. A pattern recognition control system for muscle signals, working with hands from various manufacturers. It requires a prosthetist trained in the technology.

Into Poland: a confirmed channel, through Ortho-Reha Neuhof.

Scope: upper limb.

COVVI

United Kingdom, Leeds. The COVVI Hand, a multi-grip hand in three sizes with over twenty-four programmable grips, configured through the COVVI Go app, with a powered rotating thumb and vibration feedback from the fingertips.

Into Poland: a confirmed channel, through Ortho-Reha Neuhof.

Scope: upper limb. covvi.com

Esper Bionics

Ukraine and the United States. The Esper Hand, now in its second generation as the Esper Hand 2, with control based on machine learning. A young company whose distribution channels are still taking shape.

Into Poland: no confirmed channel.

Scope: upper limb. esperbionics.com

Ethnocare

Cosmetic covers for the upper limb.

Into Poland: a confirmed channel, through Ortho-Reha Neuhof.

Scope: upper limb.

Motorica

Russia. Myoelectric and passive hands. We list it for completeness of the global picture. Under current legal conditions it is not a brand available on the Polish market.

Into Poland: no channel.

Scope: upper limb.

Naked Prosthetics and Point Designs

United States. Mechanical prostheses for individual fingers, driven by movement of the remaining part of the hand. Solutions for partial hand amputation, rarely offered in Poland.

Into Poland: no confirmed channel.

Scope: upper limb.

Open Bionics

United Kingdom. The Hero Arm, a 3D printed prosthesis aimed particularly at children and teenagers, and since October 2025 two further hands: the ruggedised Hero RGD and the Hero PRO. Sold only through a network of partner clinics.

Into Poland: no confirmed channel. Access is possible through a partner clinic abroad.

Scope: upper limb. openbionics.com

PSYONIC

United States. The Ability Hand, with elastomer fingers and touch feedback.

Into Poland: no confirmed channel.

Scope: upper limb. psyonic.io

Steeper

United Kingdom. Upper limb prosthetics, including the Espire elbow line taken over from College Park.

Into Poland: an unconfirmed channel. The brand appears in Polish clinics' supplier declarations.

Scope: upper limb.

TASKA Prosthetics

New Zealand. The TASKA Gen2 and TASKA CX hands, waterproof and mechanically robust, also suited to above-elbow solutions.

Into Poland: no confirmed channel. It arrives through European partners or by direct order.

Scope: upper limb. taskaprosthetics.com

Vincent Systems

Germany. The VINCENTevolution family, lightweight hands with sensory feedback.

Into Poland: no confirmed channel.

Scope: upper limb.

What this means if you are choosing a prosthesis

If a clinic offers components of a single brand only, that is usually information about its trade agreements. Ask directly how many suppliers it works with and whether it can compare two solutions of the same type.

For a component imported directly, ask about three things: delivery time, warranty terms and who will service it in three years. The third question is often the hardest to answer.

The biggest difference between the world market and the Polish one is not about knees or feet. It is about socket technology and upper limb prosthetics. That is where the choice is genuinely narrower, and where it pays to ask most carefully.

How much of the price of a prosthesis is covered by public funds is a separate subject: see the article on reimbursement from the NFZ and in the article on PFRON co-funding.

How this directory works

No ratings, no ranking, no prices and no payment for a listing. A brand's presence on this list is not a recommendation, and its absence is not a warning.

We confirm a Polish channel at source: through an office address, a representative for the country, a catalogue published in Polish, or an entry on a distributor list maintained by the manufacturer itself. Entries from trade aggregators are not enough.

The same rule applies to product descriptions. We name only models confirmed on the manufacturer's website, in its catalogue or in a launch announcement, with the date given there. Product lines change quickly, so we check them again at every review.

Updates and corrections

We review the list once a quarter.

Is a company missing that should be here? Has something changed? Write to us through the contact form, subject „Manufacturer directory”. We will check and correct it at the next review, and immediately for obvious errors.

The rest of the directory: producers in Poland, distributors for Poland.