One rubber band changed how the world does rehab. Performance Health has spent the decades since turning recovery into an inventory - roughly 2,000 employees, $700 million in revenue, and a catalog that reaches from the training table to the VA hospital.
Hanger began with a wooden leg fashioned from barrel staves during the Civil War. Today, its advantage is a 925-clinic feedback loop connecting patients, clinicians, research, fabrication and the supply chain.