- Specialist physician in orthopaedics and trauma surgery
- Specialising in shoulder and elbow surgery as well as general sports injuries
Priv-Doz. 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
