Department of Trauma and Reconstructive Surgery, Hand Surgery, Trauma Center (320976)

About the Department of Trauma and Reconstructive Surgery, Hand Surgery, Trauma Center at DRK Altenkirchen-Hachenburg Hospital

The Department of Trauma and Reconstructive Surgery, Hand Surgery, Trauma Center offers a wide range of medical services and is headed by Dr. med. Frank Hostmann. 

The range of surgical treatment of the department includes:

• All modern procedures for the surgical treatment of bone lesions
• Knee and hip replacement surgery in fractures or wear disorders
• Arthroscopic surgery
• Foot surgery
• Shoulder surgery
• Reconstructive tendons and soft tissue surgery
• Microsurgical procedures

The range of conservative treatment of the department includes:

• Plaster processing in non-surgical fractures of all joints
• Conservative treatment of non-surgical pelvic fractures, including painkiller and physiotherapy monitoring
• Conservative treatment of vertebral fractures that do not require surgical intervention, including painkiller and physiotherapy
• Conservative treatment of herniated discs of the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine, including neurological and, if necessary, neurosurgical coprocessing
• Treatment and monitoring of non-surgical traumatic craniocerebral injury with computed tomography, neurological and, if necessary, neurosurgical therapy

The range of hand surgery department:

• Correction of consequences of injuries after accidents
• Correction of childhood developmental defects
• Joint replacement surgeries Surgery of Dupuytren's contracture
• Nerve compression syndromes surgery (carpal tunnel syndrome, cubital canal syndrome)
• Treatment of reflex sympathetic dystrophy
• Replacement surgeries of damaged muscles or nerves
• Tumors treatment
• Rheumatic and degenerative diseases (for example, arthrosis in the saddle joint of the thumb)
• Replantation surgery, microsurgery

Photo of the doctor: (c) DRK gemeinnützige Krankenhausgesellschaft mbH Rheinland-Pfalz