- Specialist physician in orthopaedics and trauma surgery
- Paediatric orthopaedics
- Emergency medicine
- Specialist for foot surgery and deformity correction
- Osteoarthritis treatment in the foot and ankle
“The human foot is a work of art made up of 26 bones, 107 ligaments and 19 muscles” Leonardo da Vinci
Foot surgery, as well as paediatric orthopaedics, has established itself in recent years as a specialty within orthopaedics. In-depth knowledge of the interaction of bones, ligaments and muscles as well as the biomechanics of the foot skeleton are essential in order to successfully treat the diverse diseases, deformities and muscle imbalances.
Paediatric orthopaedics also requires highly differentiated knowledge about growth and development, from newborn to adolescent. It is important to recognise malformations in good time and to treat them. This area also requires constructive cooperation from all parties involved in diagnosis and treatment, whether it is a paediatrician, paediatric orthopaedist or physiotherapist.
As a Senior Physician and Head of Paediatric Orthopaedics and Foot Surgery at the University Hospital Heidelberg, Dr. med. Müller offers the appropriate expertise and experience.
Range of services
Treatment focuses lower limb/ankle/foot
Conservative and operative therapy of severe deformities and dysfunctions of the lower leg, ankle and foot in children and adults:
- Claw and hammer toes
- Hallux valgus
- Hallux rigidus
- Kinked flatfoot
- Pes equinocavus
- Clubfoot, congenital or neurogenic
- Pes equinus, congenital or neurogenic
- Falling foot, neurological or post-traumatic
- Foot misalignments after accidents or pre-operations
- Malocclusions after neurological diseases (e.g. stroke, paraplegia, spina bifida, cerebral palsy, poliomyelitis)
- Osteoarthritis of the ankle and foot joints
- Haglund heel
- Heel spurs
- Plantar fasciitis
- Leg shortening, congenital or post-traumatic
- Malalignment of the lower extremity
- BOTOX therapy with neurological diseases
Main focus of treatment on children/adolescents
Conservative and operative therapy of diseases of the musculoskeletal system in children and adolescents:
- Sonography of the infant hip
- Hip dysplasia
- Hip diseases, e.g. Morbus Perthes, femoral head gliding
- Gait disorders, e.g. internal rotation
- O-leg, X-leg
- Osteochondritis dissecans knee/ankle
- Leg shortening
- Clubfoot, talipes calceneus
- Kinked foot, sickle foot
- Infantile cerebral palsy, spina bifida
- Rare diseases
- BOTOX therapy with neurological diseases
Education
- 1993-1999: Study of human medicine at the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg
Clinical career
- 1993-1999 Study of human medicine at the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg
- 01/2000-06/2001 Resident, Centre for Knee and Foot Surgery ATOS Clinic Heidelberg, Prof. Pässler/Prof. Thermann
- 07/2001-02/2004 Surgery resident, SLK-Kliniken Heilbronn
- 04/2004-06/2007 Research Assistant (Resident) Orthopaedic University Clinic Heidelberg, Dept. of Orthopaedics 2, Prof. Gerner/Dr. Döderlein
- 07/2007-08/2010 Research Assistant (Resident) Orthopaedic University Clinic Heidelberg, Dept. of Orthopaedics 1, Prof. Ewerbeck
- 09/2010-12/2012 Senior Physician Paediatric Orthopaedics and Foot Surgery section of the Orthopaedic University Hospital Heidelberg, Prof. Ewerbeck
- 01/2013-03/2017 Head of the Paediatric Orthopaedics/Foot Surgery section, Head of Technical Orthopaedics, Orthopaedic University Hospital Heidelberg, Prof. Ewerbeck
- Since 04/2017 Partner at the Centre for Hip, Knee and Foot Surgery, ATOS Clinic Heidelberg
