- Specialist in orthopaedics
- Specialist for hip, spine, shoulder, elbow and hand surgery
Range of services
- Microsurgical treatment for lumbar or cervical disc herniation
- Endoscopic and laser-assisted nucleotomy (disc nucleus removal)
- Chemonucleolysis (Enzyme dissolution of the nucleus disc nucleus)
- Spinal cord and nerve root relieving interventions with spinal canal stenosis
- Treatment of post-discomfort syndrome
- Stabilisation and spinal erection in spondylolistheses and instabilities
- Endoscopic or open decompression of calculus shoulder and bottleneck syndromes
- Endoscopic or open stabilisation surgery for shoulder dislocations and instabilities
- Endoscopic and open reconstruction surgery as well as reconstructive replacement surgery for non-reconstructible defects of the rotator cuff
- Artificial shoulder joint replacement (arthroplasty)
- Endoscopic or open surgical procedures for tennis elbow, instability of the elbow and treatment of free joint body
- Removal of the synovium, joint replacement, joint reconstruction at the elbow
- Endoscopic or open surgical procedures for the treatment of Dupuytren’s disease, tendonitis in rheumatic diseases, carpal tunnel syndrome, ganglia, rheumatoid arthritis
Education
- 1973 – 1979 Study of Human Medicine, University of Düsseldorf
- 1979 3. Medical state examination and license to practice as a doctor
- 1981 Doctorate in Medicine, University of Düsseldorf
- 1984 Study visit: Orthopaedic Department of the University of California, San Francisco, USA; and Department of Paediatric Orthopaedics, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
- 1986 Specialist physician in orthopaedics
- 1990 Habilitation for the subject orthopaedics
- 1992 Acquisition of additional qualification in “Chiropractics”
- 1996 Acquisition of the additional name “Physical Therapy”, German Society for Ultrasound in Medicine (DEGUM): Instructor Level III
Clinical career
- 1979 – 1982 Medical Surgery, Augusta Krankenanstalten, Bochum
- 1982 – 1986 Medical Assistant for Orthopaedics, Orthopaedic University Clinic Bochum, St. Josef-Hospital
- 1986 – 1989 Senior Physician at the Orthopaedic University Clinic Bochum, St. Josef-Hospital
- 1989 – 1992 Head Senior Physician and Deputy Director of the Clinic of the Orthopaedic University Clinic Bochum, St. Josef-Hospital Bochum
- Since 1993 Head Physician of the Department of Orthopaedics II, Upper Extremities and Spine, Klinik Fleetinsel Hamburg
- Since 2014 Chief Physician of the Orthopaedic Clinic, ATOS Klinik Fleetinsel Hamburg
