Founded in 1963, The Galeazzi Orthopaedic Institute, I.R.C.C.S. (Scientific Institute for Research, Hospitalization and Health Care), in Milan is, since 2001, the first hospital for orthopaedic admissions in the Lombardy Region, with 3300 prosthetic surgeries and 1000 spinal arthrodesis interventions per year, it is the reference center for the locomotor system disorders.