About the Department of Endoprosthetics at Wooridul Hospital Seoul
The Department of Endoprosthetics at the Wooridul Hospital Seoul offers the full range of services in this medical field. It performs high-precision, minimally invasive surgeries to partially or totally replace knee, hip, shoulder and ankle joints. Also, computer-assisted navigation surgery is widely used in the clinical practice. Thanks to the excellent technical equipment and high competence of the department's surgeons, the optimal treatment results are provided here. The department is headed by Dr. med. Yong Gab Jeong.
Computerized navigation surgery is widely used in clinical practice, which allows the surgeons to increase the accuracy of the operation, achieve the highest rates of successful treatment, and reduce the frequency of disease recurrences. The work of the department's doctors is based on another important treatment method, namely minimally invasive surgery. Such interventions allow the doctor to reduce the size of a surgical incision by 50% or more, preserve soft tissues as much as possible, significantly reduce the recovery period, minimize the risk of complications, recurrences and pain. In addition, an important advantage of minimally invasive interventions is the cosmetic aspect, namely the absence of scars.
The service range of the department includes:
- Knee surgery
- Total knee replacement using computer navigation
- Cruciate ligament reconstruction surgery using computer navigation
- Partial knee replacement using computer navigation
- Tibial osteotomy using computer navigation
- Allogeneic chondrocyte transplantation
- Shoulder surgery
- Arthroscopic interventions on shoulder ligaments
- Arthroscopic interventions for shoulder dislocation
- Arthroscopic intervention for adhesive shoulder capsulitis
- Shoulder replacement surgery
- Hip surgery
- Hip replacement surgery using computer navigation
- Arthroscopic hip surgery
- Ankle surgery
- Reconstructive interventions on the ankle ligaments
- Ankle replacement surgery
- Arthroscopic ankle surgery
- Surgical correction of the hallux valgus
- Non-surgical treatment methods
- Extracorporeal shock wave therapy
- Injection therapy with the ultrasonic navigation
- Individual kinesitherapy
- Physiotherapy
- Other medical services
Curriculum vitae
Education
- Internship, Department of Orthopedics, Asan Medical Center.
- Residency, Department of Orthopedics, Asan Medical Center.
- Magistracy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ulsan.
- Internship, Department of Orthopedics, Asan Medical Center.
- Baccalaureate, Faculty of Medicine, Chung Ang University.
Professional Career
- Department of Orthopedics, Sarang Hospital, Incheon.
- Center for Joint Replacement Surgery with the help of Robotic Surgery, Catholic Hospital.
- Head of the Center for Joint Diseases at the Nanoori Hospital.
- Head of the Center for Joint Diseases at the Hyundai Hospital.
- Arthroplasty Center, Nepean Hospital, Australia.
- Member of the Advisory Commission on Stem Cell Therapy.
- Leading Researcher, "Treatment of shoulder diseases with stem cells".
- Consultant in Orthopedics, Third National Hospital Nomin, Mongolia.
Membership in Professional Societies and Committees
- Member of the Korean Orthopedic Association.
- Member of the Korean Knee Society.
- Member of the Korean Society of Sports Medicine.
- Member of the Korean Geriatrics Society.
Photo of the doctor: (c) Wooridul Hospital Seoul