Range of services
Surgical and conservative treatment of diseases of the spine
Conservative treatment
- In-depth survey of medical history and clinical examination
- Concept planning for behavioural and physiotherapy
- Diagnostic and therapeutic infiltration treatments
Surgical treatment
Cervical spine
- Minimally invasive operation for disc herniation from behind without stabilisation
- Cervical spine surgery in the event of herniated discs with movement-preserving techniques (intervertebral disc prosthesis) or fusions
- Operations on the cervical spine from the front to relieve the spinal cord with narrowing of the spinal canal (possibly with vertebral body replacement)
- Corrective surgery on the cervical spine from the front or back for degenerative deformities
- Stabilising operations for fractures or tumours on the cervical spine
Thoracic and lumbar spine
- Microsurgical operations on herniated discs
- Microsurgical relief (decompression) the event of constriction of the spinal canal or the nerve exit holes (spinal canal stenosis)
- Corrective stabilisation and fusion procedures for wear-related scolioses
- Stabilisation and fusions of instabilities and advanced wear transformations
- Revision surgery for recurrence of intervertebral disc, implant loosening or false joint formation after fusion
- Minimally invasive cementum augmentation (kyphoplasty) with vertebral body fractures (e.g. osteoporosis)
- Complex cement-augmented stabilisation procedures with osteoporotic bone quality
Education
- Study of human medicine at the Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel 1990-1997
- Physician internship, Department of Orthopaedics, University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf (Prof. Dr. W. Rüther), 1997-1999
Academic degrees:
- Habilitation and appointment as private lecturer University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf 2013, subject: “Models for In Vitro Cultivation of Articular Cartilage Defects in the Treatment of Deep Articular Cartilage Defects”
- Doctorate at the Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel 1999, subject: “The Chondrocyte Synovialocytes Co-culture: Isolated Synovialocytes Modulate Chondrocyteic Metabolism in Vitro”
Clinical career
- Residency and research assistant Clinic and Polyclinic for Orthopaedics, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf (Prof. Dr. W. Rüther) and Department of General, Visceral and Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf (Prof. Izbicki) 1999-2007
- Senior Physician University Spine Centre, Department of Neurosurgery, Head and Neuro Centre, University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf (Prof. Dr. Westphal) 2007-2009
- Senior Physician Centre for Spinal Surgery, Schön-Klinik Hamburg-Eilbek (Prof. Dr. med. Papavero) 2009-2010
- Head Physician Department of Spine Surgery, Helios-Endo-Klinik, Hamburg 2010-2013
- Head Physician Spinal surgery clinic at Klinikum Bad Bramstedt 2013-2015
- Head Physician Department of Spine Surgery, Albertinen Hospital Hamburg 2015-2018
- Since December 2018 Head Physician of the Department of Spine Surgery, ATOS Clinic Fleetinsel Hamburg
