Department of spine orthopaedic surgery
The department of spine orthopaedic surgery at St. Elisabethen Hospital Frankfurt am Main carries out the full range of diagnostics and treatments for spinal diseases. Back pain has long been a common disease and is often associated with acute or chronic spinal disease. It can be either orthopaedic, bone-ligamentous or neurological, arising from the nerve cords passing through the spine. The department combines the experience of neurosurgery, orthopaedics, and traumatology to benefit patients. Thus, the department's patients receive a comprehensive package of services from one source and get rid of long trips to specialists. In addition, the department is one of the few in Germany that offers dynamic scoliosis correction for children and adolescents. This is a new gentle surgical technique available as a treatment option for some forms of scoliosis.
High-qualified doctors of the department have many years of experience in minimally invasive surgery, especially in degenerative diseases of the spine. The integral components of therapy are complex pain relief therapy, prevention and surgical therapy of initial and advanced degeneration.