News

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.