Paediatric and Adolescent Orthopaedics

Whether dealing with club foot, skew foot or flat foot, bone fractures or torticollis or scoliosis – our medical and nursing team covers a broad orthopaedic range and is geared towards an integrated treatment of children and adolescents.

Conservative treatments

• Club foot treatment according to the Ponseti method, including complex club feet
• Hollow foot, skew foot, flat foot und and drop foot
• Botulinum toxin injections with spastic illnesses (ICP) and drop feet
• Perthes’ disease (botulinum injection, inpatient physiotherapy)
• Scoliosis treatment – corset fitting (manufactured by Zapfe in-house)
• Paediatric rheumatology in co-operation with our Department of Paediatric and Adolescent Medicine
• Fractures
• Congenital malformations of the upper and lower extremities 

Operative treatments

• Club foot corrections and follow-up correction of undercorrected and overcorrected club feet in older children and adults
• Toe lengthening (metatarsals)
• Foot corrections of severe deformities (HSMN) as well as with skew foot, flat foot, drop foot or hollow foot
• Drop foot treatment by means of direct or indirect Achilles tendon lengthening
• Axial corrections of the lower extremities with modern implants
• Patella-stabilising measures: lateral release, medical tightening, operation according to Insall or Goldwaith, MPFL reconstruction
• Treatment of osteochondritis dissecans by drilling, reconstruction of the spongiosa or modern cartilage transplantation
• Reconstructions of deformed or shortened limbs – also multi-dimensional corrections as well as extensions
• Hip reconstructions according to Salter and surgical hip dislocation
• Transposition osteotomies due to Perthes’ disease, dysplasia of the hip and ECF as well as treatment with fixator extending beyond the hip
• Emergency treatment of epiphysiolysis of the head of the femur (ECF)
• Tendon lengthening due to neuro-orthopaedic diseases (ICP)
• Shoulder stabilisations (open or arthroscopic)
• Transposition osteotomies following malpositions in the region of the elbow
• Polydactyly/constricting skin creases (co-operation with plastic surgeons)
• Tumour treatment
• Treatment of plexus lesions (co-operation with neurosurgeons/plastic surgeons)
• Paediatric traumatology