Swabian Joint Center
Arthroscopic joint operations - painless with the smallest incisions
One of the surgical focuses at the Swabian Joint Centre (SGZ) is arthroscopic treatment of injuries and diseases of the joints.
What does "arthroscopic" mean to you as a patient of the SGZ?
Arthroscopic or arthroscopy (joint endoscopy) means that your surgeon at the SGZ can look into the joint, e.g. shoulder joint, through a small minimally invasive incision (approx. 5 mm) using a kind of video camera (optics). Because the incision is small and can hardly be seen after the scar has healed, we also speak of keyhole technique.
The advantage of arthroscopy is that your experienced arthroscopic joint surgeon at the SGZ can examine all areas of the joint under direct vision with the aid of the optics on a monitor. This enables your joint specialist to examine various structures of the joint such as cartilage, tendons, muscles and ligaments and thus to find the cause of your pain clearly and unambiguously.
What is the advantage of arthroscopy?
The great advantage of arthroscopy is that both diagnosis and therapy can be performed in one operation. Due to the small incisions of the arthroscopy, you have less pain after the operation, rehabilitation is shorter and you can use your joint again more quickly in everyday life.
Which Shoulder diseases are treated at the SGZ using shoulder arthroscopy treated?
- Arthroscopic suture of tears in the rotator cuff
- Arthroscopic therapy for rotator cuff mass rupture
- Arthroscopically supported latissimus dorsi transfer for postero-superior rotator cuff defects and preserved subscapularis
- Arthroscopic revision surgery for recurrent ruptures of the rotator cuff
- Arthroscopic treatment of injuries after shoulder dislocation/ shoulder instability
- Arthroscopic bankart repair and reverse bankart repair
- Arthroscopic Hill-Sachs remplissage and reverse Hill-Sachs remplissage
- Arthroscopically supported latarjet surgery for anterior shoulder dislocation/ shoulder instability
- Arthroscopic fracture treatment for glenoid/scapular fractures
- Arthroscopically supported fracture treatment for humeral head fractures
- Arthroscopic reconstruction of the acromioclavicular joint (AC joint) after trauma or chronic instability
- Arthroscopically supported fracture treatment of the clavicle
- Arthroscopic treatment of injuries of the long biceps tendon, the biceps anchor and arthroscopic therapy of the pulley injury
- Arthroscopic suture of the biceps anchor
- Arthroscopic suprapektoral tenodesis of the long biceps tendon
- Arthroscopic subpektoral tenodesis of the long biceps tendon
- Arthroscopic therapy of cartilage damage to the shoulder
- Arthroscopic arthrolysis for frozen shoulder
- Arthroscopic therapy for therapy-resistant bottleneck syndrome (impingement syndrome)
- Arthroscopic therapy of nerve constriction syndromes of the shoulder e.g. neurolysis of the suprascapular nerve
- Arthroscopic therapy of the calcified shoulder
- Arthroscopic therapy of the shoulder infection
- Arthroscopic therapy as a prosthesis-preserving procedure for shoulder prosthesis infections
- Arthroscopic tumour removal of the shoulder such as cyst and lipoma removal
- Arthroscopically supported intralesional tumour removal of the shoulder, e.g. enchondroma removal and filling
Which knee diseases are treated at the SGZ using knee arthroscopy?
- Arthroscopically supported reconstruction of the anterior cruciate ligament with autologous tendon transplants.
- Arthroscopically supported reconstruction of the posterior cruciate ligament
- Revision operations after cruciate ligament operations with filling of drill channels
- Arthroscopic meniscus suture
- Arthroscopic meniscus smoothing
- Arthroscopic meniscus resection
- Arthroscopic therapy of the disc meniscus
- Arthroscopic therapy for meniscus ganglion
- Arthroscopic therapy of cartilage damage to the knee joint
- Autologous cartilage transplantation, microfracturing
- Arthroscopic therapy of osteochondrosis dissecans
- Arthroscopic removal of free joint bodies, synovectomy
- Arthroscopic arthrolysis for knee stiffness
- Knee arthroscopy and cartilage therapy in combination with leg axis correction by repositioning osteotomy
- Arthroscopically supported reconstruction of the inner and outer ligament of the knee joint with therapy of concomitant injuries
- Arthroscopic supported stabilization and correction of the patella with MPFL plastic
- Arthroscopic surgery of the patellar tip syndrome
- Arthroscopic therapy of the plexa syndrome
- Arthroscopically supported reconstruction in the case of ruptured cruciate ligament
- Arthroscopic supported metal removal