Register 4 · Care centres updated Aug 2026

Where expertise lives.

The map of reference and competence centres for limb difference, in Europe and beyond, validated with our member associations so a family anywhere knows where the nearest expertise is. The interactive map arrives with the first validated batch; the register opens as a list.

INAIL Centro Protesi · Vigorso di Budrio, Italy visited by the board

One of Europe’s leading prosthetics centres: fitting, rehabilitation and applied research under one roof. “I was looking for active prostheses, not passive ones: something alive. I wanted to humanise the prosthesis” (Johannes Schmidl, its first technical director).

Emilia-Romagna, Italy · prosthetics & rehabilitation · inail.it

ERN BOND network centres source

The European Reference Network for rare bone diseases connects expert hospitals across the EU. DysNet’s seat in its patient advocacy group is the channel for validating limb-difference centres.

EU-wide · ernbond.eu

Orphanet directory of expert centres source

Orphanet maintains the European directory of expert centres for rare diseases, searchable by condition and country. Our register cross-references it: each DysNet-validated centre links to its Orphanet record.

Orphanet · orpha.net/en/expert-centres

Example entry: a national competence centre example

Each entry: centre, city and country, what it specialises in, how families are referred, and which member association validated it.

City, country · specialism · validated by

The DysNet board touring a prosthetics workshop at the INAIL centre, with casts and tools on the benches
The DysNet board visiting the INAIL prosthetics workshops, Vigorso di Budrio, August 2024. Photo: DysNet.
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