Current Topics
Integrative medicine in orthopaedics and pain therapy
Integrative medicine refers to healthcare that takes into account all suitable therapeutic approaches, regardless of whether they originate from conventional or...
Therapy of osteoarthritis updated
Osteoarthritis is a degenerative process of the cartilage covering of the joints that accompanies us all with increasing age. Comparable to the annual rings on trees,...
Osteoporosis
Definition by WHO „Osteoporosis is a systemic sceletal disease being characterized by a low bone mass and structural changes of the bone tissue resulting as a...
Preventive healthcare with orthopaedic check-ups
Precaution and prevention are the trend Your own health should be your favorite child. The associated performance at work and in your leisure time is a valuable...
Pain therapy with facet block for facet syndrome
One of the most common interventional therapeutic procedures on the spine is facet block (injection into the intervertebral joints of the cervical, thoracical and...
Epidural infiltrations for treating back pain
The term epidural infiltration describes the step-by-step injection of medication in the epidural space of the spinal cord, which is the space between the periosteum...
Nerve blocks and injections into joints
Injections in joints such as the shoulder, hip, knee (see illustration) and ankle joints, but also in tendons and muscles are common therapies in daily orthopaedic...
Fit and healthy through autumn
Active sporting exercise invigorates body and mind, even in autumn. In accordance with the Roman maxim "mens sana in corpore sano" (a healthy mind in a healthy body),...
Sport for orthopaedic disorders
Sporting activity makes an important contribution to the prevention and rehabilitation of orthopaedic diseases and functional disorders Many people want to be active in...
Ultrasound in orthopaedics, sports medicine and pain therapy
Imaging procedures such as ultrasound and X-ray are important and indispensable medical standards in both pain diagnostics and interventional pain therapy.The...
Pain therapy effects and side effects
Any type of pain therapy can trigger desired effects such as the regaining of ideally pain-free movement function, but also undesired side effects such as a temporary...
Effective and gentle medical training therapy in water
For back and joint complaints, whether acute or chronic, medical training therapy in water (hydrotherapy) is, in my view, the most suitable. Here, crawl swimming (back...