Orthopedic Surgery
The orthopedic surgery department is working with the Department of Internal Medicine for rheumatism and the diagnostic radiology department at the joint center for general diagnoses, treatments, education, and research related to diseases in bones, joints, nerves, and muscles in the spine and in the limbs.
This department treats for traumas, diseases, deformations, and tumors of the bone and joints. Moreover, this department operates special clinics for each of the 8 special areas (knee joints and sports medicine, hip joint, bone and soft tissue tumors and upper limb diseases, spine, children’s orthopedic and cerebral palsy, feet disease and deformation clinic, rheumatism disease clinic, hand diseases, and fine surgery) to provide more specialized medical services.
The orthopedic surgery department of this hospital performs more than 6,000 surgeries such as cerebral palsy surgeries, surgeries for degenerative arthritis and bone fractures around the hip joint using artificial hip joints, surgeries for degenerative arthritis using artificial knee joints, surgeries to restore rotator cuff/articular labrum ruptures using arthroscopes, etc.
