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An external fixator was used for the first time in Central Europe during elbow joint surgery. Find out more!

Since March, I have become the chief medical advisor (Key Opinion Leader) of Orthofix company for Austria. The company Orthofix is the 8th largest orthopedic medical device company in the world …

It was a great honor and a special experience for me to take part in the 38th German-Austrian-Swiss Congress for Sports Traumatology from February 16 to 24. This took place in Seefeld, Tyrol. This event brought together experts from the field of sports medicine and sports traumatology from German-speaking countries and offered a unique platform for exchange, learning and networking.

I operated on a young man after a severe dislocation of the elbow joint in which he had torn both collateral ligaments and the joint capsule on the front side.

I operated on an elderly patient with a broken humerus in the elbow joint. I opted for a “half” elbow replacement.

Continuing education is the be-all and end-all. Therefore, I am gathering further knowledge and experience these days at the annual congress of the Austrian Society for Trauma Surgery in Salzburg.

During the night, I operated on an acute patient with large pus deposit in the upper arm near the elbow joint. The patient’s hand was paralyzed in the meantime.

Yesterday I operated on a very rare case – a congenital fused forearm bone directly below the elbow in an 18-year-old athlete (picture before the operation).

Comminuted fractures of the elbow are very difficult to treat. The X-rays show the bone reconstruction procedure from start to finish.

I operated on a young patient, an athlete with a rare comminuted fracture in the elbow joint (Fig. before). These injuries are very difficult to treat, as the fragments of the joint surface are often small and it is often not even technically possible to reassemble them.

Today we operated on a very unstable elbow joint after a serious injury. We had to reconstruct both lateral ligaments

A young athlete (pitcher in baseball) injured the medial collateral ligament of the elbow joint while pitching 3 years ago. He was treated in a specialized hospital by replacing the ligament with an artificial fiber.

I have now published my many years of experience with unhealed fractures of the lower end of the humerus and their solutions with the aid of artificial joints in the journal of the Austrian Society for Orthopedics and Orthopedic Surgery.

Surgery for an artificial elbow joint (endoprosthesis) is a complex procedure that is performed at only a few clinics. If an elbow arthroplasty is implanted in patients with an elbow fracture, the surgery is even more challenging.

In many patients, we encounter problems that arise from different areas at the same time. The most common are pain in the lumbar spine, buttocks and hip, and pain in the hip, knee and ankle.

Shoulder dislocation often also results in injury to the humerus or glenoid cavity. A defect (a dent) occurs in the posterior portion of the humeral head, and an anterior portion (of varying size) breaks away from the glenoid cavity of the scapula. If these injuries occur at the same time, the likelihood of the next shoulder dislocation is high.

These are demanding procedures for the surgeon, which take 2.5 to 3 hours. The key to success in these cases is the correction of the ulna – reconstruction of its articular surface, restoration of its axis and length, and subsequent fitting with a plate. Then continue with the reconstruction of the upper end of the spoke.

In some cases, it certainly works! It is not uncommon to find axial deviations in the knee area in patients (more often in the form of the letter “O”, less frequently in the form of the letter “X”). If we align the limb axis in good time in these cases, we can either prevent the implantation of a total endoprosthesis altogether or at least delay it by many years.