Clinic for Trauma Surgery and Orthopaedics

• Care of the severely injured (certified for the Verletzungsartenverfahren (VAV- Injury Classification Procedure) as designated by the Employers' Liability Insurance Association)
• Supra-regional trauma centre affiliated with the DGU Trauma Network for Endoprosthetics of the Joints (hip, knee, shoulder, ankle joint, elbow)
• Re-positioning operations in response to joint degeneration
• Corrective surgeries in response to accident-induced defective positions
• Tumours of the skeletal system
• Shoulder surgery
• Elbow surgery
• Knee surgery
• Spinal-cord surgery (minimally-invasive procedures)
• Hand surgery (for accident-induced and degenerative injuries)
• Plastic/reconstructive surgery (lobe replacement, Scar correction, aesthetic surgery etc.)
• Foot surgery
• Sports traumatology (arthroscopic procedures on the knee, ankle, shoulder, elbow and hip joints)
• Computer-assisted surgery with intra-operative 3-D imaging

• Interdisciplinary ward for short-term surgery inpatients (IKC)
• Specialised physical and occupational therapy
• Centre for Plastic Surgery

• Navigation systems for endo-prosthetics, axial correction, spinal-cord and foot surgery
• Intra-operative quality assurance via 3-D X-ray imaging
• Arthroscopic arthritis therapy of the knee and hip joints
• Use of growth hormones and cartilage-cell therapy
• Minimally-invasive knee-ligament surgery (anterior and posterior cruciate ligament)
• Minimally-invasive shoulder surgery is response to degeneration and injuries
• Differentiated foot surgery and forefoot surgery (defective positions of the toes, endo-prosthetics on the ankle joint etc.)
• Minimally-invasive procedures on the spine (kyphoplasty, inter-spinal distraction, endoscopic operations)
• Differentiated elbow surgery with arthroscopic procedures, including endoprosthetic on the elbow

Clinical studies, particularly in the field of:

• Spine (subsequent complications following injuries of the thoraco-lumbal passage)
• Hand(wrist), scaphoid pseudoarthroses, scapholunary ligament injuries
• Elbow injuries, radial fractures (ORCHID study)
• Poly-trauma
• Ankle joint (impingement syndrome, Osteochondrosis dissecans)
• Computer-assisted endo-prosthetics
• Traumatology (ageing-induced trauma)

• Quality Circle for ER Trauma Room Management
• Regional Trauma Network (Stuttgart)
• Weekly internal continuing-education courses
• Participation in the DGU Polytrauma Registry
• Participation in BQS data collection
• Certification by the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Schlaganfallstationen Baden-Württemberg e.V. Baden-Württemberg Stroke Unit Consortium, a registered association)