Dear Patients,
Hand and Foot Surgery is a subbranch of Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery. Since 1994, it has been a separate medical specialty in Krankenhaus Waldfriede, and offers a comprehensive outpatient and operative spectrum of services. Consultations and surgeries are performed by specialists who have not only been trained and qualified in surgical orthopedics, but have an additional qualification in hand surgery in which they have accumulated long years of experience. For all emergencies, regardless of severity, our 24-hour Emergency Services is at your disposal, even on holidays and the weekend.
During our outpatient consultations, we will advise you extensively about all disorders, injuries and aftereffects of injuries to the hand, under arm, elbow, foot and ankle. As necessary, we carry out diagnostic as well as non-operative measures. This takes place in either an outpatient or stationary setting, according to medical indications. After finishing with our treatment, you will receive detailed information and advice for your further therapy plan. Of course we, and respectively the following attending physicians, are available after your discharge for consultation.
The speciality, "Hand surgery", is approved by the Worker's Compensation Board for the treatment of severe injuries resulting from work or school accidents. We act as consultants and appraisers for insurance companies and courts of law. It is also possible for specialists to obtain additional qualification in Hand Surgery thru us. We are members of the German Society for Hand Surgery, Association for Foot Surgery, as will as Orthopedic and Trauma Surgery.