- Knee specialist
- Deputy Medical Director
- Optional physician
Prof. Dr. med. Stefan Hinterwimmer is one of the leading specialists in the field of knee surgery in Germany and leads expert groups of several national and international medical societies. The clinical and scientific focus of Prof. Hinterwimmer is on joint preservation in the form of cruciate ligament surgery and its revisions, joint-preserving conversion operations, meniscus-preserving operations and complex surgery on the kneecap.
Range of services
Surgical and conservative therapy with:
- Cruciate ligament injuries (preservation or replacement of the anterior and posterior cruciate ligaments)
- Collateral ligament injuries (preservation and replacement of the inner and outer ligament and the capsule)
- Complex knee joint injuries including knee dislocations and fractures
- Meniscal tears and meniscal root injuries (focus on meniscus preservation)
- Kneecap instabilities (patellar stabilisation including complex interventions such as torsion osteotomies and trochleaplastics)
- Cartilage injuries and cartilage damage (all techniques of cartilage maintenance)
- Limitations of movement of the knee joint (joint loosening = arthrolysis)
- Knee joint osteoarthritis (complete joint preservation by conversion surgery, partial joint preservation by sled prostheses or trochlear prostheses)
- Tendon injuries on the knee joint and on the pelvis (tendon reconstruction)
- Limitations of movement and cartilage injuries and ankle fractures
Education
- 1989-1996: Medical studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) Munich, scholarship of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
- Study visits to South Africa, several times in England, China and Switzerland
Clinical career
- 1997-2006: Practical education and training at the Surgical Clinic of the University of Munich
- 2003: Recognition as a specialist physician in surgery
- From 2005: Senior physician with focus on extremity surgery
- 2007: Recognition as a specialist physician in trauma surgery
- From 2007: Senior Physician and Head Senior Physician in the Department of Sports Orthopaedics at the Klinikum Rechts der Isar, Technical University (TU) Munich, Team Leader Knee
- 2008: Recognition as a specialist physician in orthopaedics and trauma surgery
- From 2012: Partner of the medical department of the professional football teams of FC Ingolstadt 04
- 2013 Self-employed Chief Physician of the Sportsclinic Germany Munich
- 2014 Foundation of the joint practice “OrthoPlus Munich” and the “MVZ Alte Börse München”
- From 2013 Surgical work at the Starmed Clinic Munich