- Specialist physician in orthopaedics and trauma surgery
- Specialising in shoulder and elbow surgery as well as general sports injuries
Prof. Dr. med. Frank Martetschläger heads the emergency department for sports injuries at ATOS Clinic Munich.
Range of services
Shoulder surgery
- Rotator cuff arthroscopic reconstruction and revision surgery
- Fractures of the shoulder girdle: Treatment of humeral head, scapula and collarbone fractures
- Shoulder dislocation: Arthroscopic and open stabilisation procedures
- Shoulder and sternoclavicular joint: Arthroscopically assisted stabilisation after acute and chronic bursting of the shoulder joint; Stabilisation with instability of the sternoclavicular joint
- Other arthroscopic procedures: Limescale removal with calculus shoulder; arthrolysis with frozen shoulder
- Shoulder prosthetics: Anatomical and inverse procedures
Elbow surgery
- Arthroscopic removal of free joint body
- Treatment of insertion endinopathies on the elbow (epicondylitis)
- Treatment of instabilities of the elbow joint
- Neurolysis in nerve dysfunction syndromes on the elbow
Sports orthopaedics
- Treatment of sports orthopaedic and sport traumatological emergencies
- Supervision of medical strengthening therapy under the direction of Bernd Sigl
Education
- 11/1999 – 11/2005 Study of human medicine at the Julius Maximilians University Würzburg
Academic degrees
- 2008 Incidence of acromial in patients with rotator cuff tear and in a normal population without shoulder diseases (Prof. Gohlke, Würzburg)
- 2014 Habilitation in the field of orthopaedics and trauma surgery. Title of habilitation thesis: New Aspects for the Therapy of Frequent Instabilities of the Shoulder Girdle.
Clinical career
- Since 01/2015 German Shoulder Centre, ATOS Clinic Munich
- 06/2013 Specialist physician appointment as “Specialist in Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery” awarded by the Bavarian State Medical Association
- 12/2014 Resident at Department of Sports Orthopaedics, Klinikum Rechts der Isar, TU Munich (Prof. Imhoff)
- 08/2012 “International Shoulder Fellow” at the Steadman Clinic (Steadman Philippon Research Institute), Vail, Colorado, USA (Dr. Millett)
- 08/2011 Resident at the Clinic for Trauma Surgery Klinikum Rechts der Isar, TU München (Prof. Biberthaler, until 4/2012 Prof. Stöckle)
- 07/2008 Assistant Physician at ATOS Clinic Heidelberg Department of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery (Prof. Habermeyer, Dr. Lichtenberg)
- 06/2007 Resident at the Clinic for Orthopaedic Trauma Centre, University Hospital Mannheim
