Department of Pediatric Orthopedic Surgery (420071)

About the department

The Department of Pediatric Orthopedic Surgery at the Academic Childrens Hospital Nuremberg offers the full range of diagnostic and therapeutic services in this field. The specialization of the department covers the treatment of diseases and injuries of the musculoskeletal system in childhood and adolescence, with a special role being given to controlling the growth and proper development of the child's body. The state-of-the-art technical equipment and exceptional professionalism of doctors allow them to cope even with the most complex clinical cases. The department is headed by Dr. med. Kerstin Remmel.

Of particular interest to the department’s medical team is the conservative and surgical treatment of hip diseases, as well as the developmental deformities of the legs, hands and feet of any severity.

Another important focus is the timely detection and treatment of spinal diseases. With appropriate indications, doctors try to eliminate the problem with the help of conservative methods, but in the absence of positive dynamics they perform the necessary surgical intervention. When performing spinal surgery, sparing surgical techniques, modern navigation systems are used.

The service range of the department includes the diagnosis and treatment of the following pathologies:

• Diseases of the head, neck and thorax
  • Torticollis
  • Skull asymmetry
  • Thoracic asymmetry (for example, keeled chest)
  • Other diseases
• Congenital and post-traumatic deformities of arms, hands, fingers, legs, feet and spine
• Spinal diseases
  • Spina bifida
  • Inflammatory diseases of the spine
  • Spondylolysis
  • Spondylolisthesis
  • Spinal malformations
  • Other diseases
• Hip diseases
  • Hip dislocation
  • Purulent hip inflammation (one of the few urgent conditions in the field of pediatric orthopedics)
  • Hip dysplasia
  • Pathological changes in the femoral head
  • Perthes disease (circulatory disorders (ischemia) and death (necrosis) of bone tissue in the head of the femur)
  • Other pathologies
• Knee diseases and injuries
  • Chondromalacia patellae (cartilage damage on the posterior surface of the knee cap)
  • Diseases affecting the surface of the knee joint (for example, osteochondritis dissecans)
  • Patella dislocation
  • Meniscus injuries
  • Painful irritation of the patellar tendon (Osgood-Schlatter disease)
  • Pain in the anterior part of the patella
  • Other diseases
• Systemic diseases
  • Impaired axial skeleton in the pathology of bone metabolism (for example, phosphate diabetes)
  • Congenital joint stiffness (arthrogryposis)
  • Rheumatism
  • Cerebral palsy
  • Other systemic pathologies
• Benign and malignant bone tissue tumors
  • Aneurysmal bone cysts
  • Fibrous dysplasia
  • Joint exostosis
  • Juvenile bone cysts
  • Non-ossifying fibroma
  • Other diseases

Photo of the doctor: (c) Klinik Hallerwiese-Cnopfsche Kinderklinik