“Specialist in hip and knee prostheses”
Minimally invasive AMIS hip TEP – Individual knee TEP (myknee, PSI) – Shoulder and elbow surgery – Hand surgery – Knee and shoulder arthroscopy – Shock wave therapy
Contact
Praxis Dr. med. Christoph Thaler
Viehhauserstrasse 32
5071 Wals bei Salzburg
Österreich
T: +43 660 3545798
M: office@ortho-thaler.at
H: www.ortho-thaler.at
Surgery hours
| By arrangement |
DR CHRISTOPH THALER
SPECIALIST IN ORTHOPAEDICS AND ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY
Treatments
ESSENTIAL EXPERTISE / PERFORMING OPERATIONS / TREATMENTS:
- Investigation of all orthopaedic and paediatric orthopaedic clinical pictures
- Diagnosis/explanation of findings as well as conservative treatment and therapy planning
- Insoles, shoe adjustments, orthopaedic custom-made shoes
- Prescription of orthoses and bandages
- CT-targeted nerve root blocks on the lumbar spine at the Bad Vigaun Clinic
- Joint needling and injections
- Infusions
- Sonography (ultrasound) of infant hip and shoulder
Biography
PROFESSIONAL CAREER:
Professional career:
I was born in Zell am See and studied at the Medical University of Innsbruck for 11 semesters (winning two performance scholarships each for the 2nd and 3rd sections), where I began my post-doctoral medical training in the University Department of General Surgery under Prof. Raimund Margreiter in Innsbruck in 2003.
As orthopaedics had already emerged as my preferred subject during my studies, I changed to the University Department of Orthopaedics Innsbruck (Prof. Martin Krismer) in 2005.
At the hospital in Innsbruck I was able to follow the development of the minimally invasive hip approach first-hand, before I moved to my home in Salzburg to the Paracelsus Medical University of Salzburg (Prof. U. Dorn) in 2006.
At the LKH Salzburg I had 7 years of experience with senior physician Dr Franz Landauer, an excellent mentor in the field of endoprosthetics, foot surgery and especially paediatric orthopaedics, and was allowed to lead the sports orthopaedic outpatient clinic here from 2011.
Dr Franz Landauer also taught me how immensely important it is to take patients seriously with all their fears and worries and to give them the feeling that they are in good hands.
In October 2012, I accepted the position of senior physician at the Orthopaedic Department of the Kardinal Schwarzenberg Hospital in Schwarzach under Dr Manfred Höflehner, since I, as a Pinzgau native, very much appreciate my homeland with all its beauty.
Specialty:
- Specialist in orthopaedics and orthopaedic surgery
- Conservative therapy of problems of the musculoskeletal system and the spine as well as investigation of paediatric orthopaedic issues
- Surgical treatment of the knee, hip, ankle, foot, hand, elbow and shoulder
MISCELLANEOUS
Fellowships
2005 Travel fellowship Barcelona
2010 Research fellowship Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN, USA
2011 Travel fellowship University Hospital Oslo, Norway
2011 Travel fellowship in rheumatology at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
2011 Paediatric orthopaedic Europe scholarship in Vienna
2012 Technical orthopaedics travel fellowship visiting 11 orthopaedic centres in the USA as Austrian fellowship nominee
2012 GOTS DePuy MITEK travel fellowship Korea and Japan visiting 17 sports orthopaedic centres as Austrian fellowship nominee
