DEPARTMENT OF ORTHOPAEDICS
Scientific Manager: Ioannis Rallis
The orthopaedics department and the sports injuries department are staffed by top medical staff experienced in treating all orthopaedic conditions. The department’s equipment is modern and can cover all patients’ needs. The department’s activities span the entire spectrum of orthopaedic medicine, such as sports injuries, hand and foot, arthroplasty of large joints and spine, as well as emergency surgery of fractures.
Sports injuries department
Arthroscopies of all joints (knee – shoulder – talocrural – hip – elbow – wrist – subtalar) can be performed. More specifically, the following procedures are performed:
- Arthroscopic ligamentoplasty of the cruciate ligaments (anterior – posterior) with homografts or allografts, with the option to also manage complex knee ligament damage
- Arthroscopic meniscectomy or meniscal suture for torn meniscus
- Arthroscopic repair of knee cap dislocation
- Arthroscopic transplantation of chondrocytes and osteochondral pieces for deficits and lesions in the cartilage of any joint
- Arthroscopic suture of the shoulder rotator cuff
- Arthroscopic repair of shoulder labral tear
- Arthroscopic shoulder acromioplasty
- Arthroscopic adhesiolysis of any joint
- Arthroscopic removal of loose bodies from any joint
- Arthroscopic synovectomy of any joint
- Arthroscopic management of carpal tunnel syndrome
- Corrective osteotomies of knee and hip
- Percutaneous and open suture of Achilles tendon
There is also the possibility to use ultrasound for the diagnosis of sports injuries. The following are successfully performed:
- Use and injection of regenerative preparations (PRP- platelet rich plasma) in muscular injuries, tendonitides, and early osteoarthritides
- Shock wave therapy for tendonitides (epicondylitis, plantar fasciitis)
The department of sports injuries is supported by experienced physiotherapists, who immediately after surgery take on the speedy rehabilitation of the operated patients.
Hand surgery
The hand microsurgery department operates within the Department of Orthopaedics and the Department of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery.
Its aim is to anatomically and functionally repair the hand after an injury or amputation, by performing operations for the repair of bones, suture of tendons, vessels and nerves, using microsurgical techniques, as well as for the covering of skin deficits. There is also the possibility of late intervention, by performing restorative operations to improve hand’s quality or operations for the reconstruction of a non-functional hand, such as, for example, in cases of obstetric paralysis, in brachial plexus lesions and in other congenital abnormalities.
In addition, the department handles successfully the entire spectrum of pathology of the hand and in general of the upper limbs, such as:
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- De Quervain syndrome
- Dupuytren’s contracture (contraction of palmar fascia)
- Ulnar neuritis
- Radial tunnel syndrome
- Trigger thumb – finger
- Triangular fibrocartilage lesion
- Tendonitis
- Hand and wrist arthritis
- Hammer toe
- Avascular necrosis of the lunate bone
- Scaphoid fracture
- Carpal instabilities
- Epicondylitis
- Biceps rupture
Foot surgery
Modern surgical techniques are implemented for the repair of foot deformities, such as bunions (Hallux Valgus), dropped metatarsal heads, flat feet and pes cavus. Moreover, degenerative conditions of this region can be successfully managed, such as arthritis in the talocrurar and subtalar joints, as well as in the fist metatarsal joint (Hallux rigidus).
Plantography also contributes to the diagnosis and management of foot conditions; this is performed at the outpatients department.
Spine surgery
More than 300 spine operations are performed every year. From the neck to the back, all degenerative and deforming spine conditions are handled in the clinic. Our surgeons have at their disposal modern radiological and surgical equipment, such as the Pentero Zeiss surgical microscope. Working together with the hospital’s oncologists, patients suffering from metastatic cancer or other spinal cord neoplasms can be managed and supported.
Large joint arthroplasty
The hospital can showcase an impressive series of successful operations of hip and knee arthroplasty, having established over many years an unsurpassable tradition.
Orthopaedic tradition and experience in general in this hospital, combined with new technological infrastructure and the latest (minimally-invasive) surgical techniques, offer the possibility of successful surgery of this kind, irrespective of the patients’ age and the multiple and complex typical problems accompanying such cases. The aims that can be achieved include fast mobilisation of patients and minimisation of transfusions.
Orthopaedic emergencies- Fractures
New modern methods are applied for the management of fractures, using minimally-invasive surgical techniques. Small incisions are thus made, which limit the bleeding and contribute to the fast mobilisation of the fracture patient.
Spinal fractures are managed using the modern method of kyphoplasty or by percutaneous spinal fusion or by classical spinal fusion in case of extensive neurological damage that needs decompression.
The hospital is equipped with an Intensive Care Unit, MRI and CT scanners, all necessary tools for the recovery of the injured patient.