Orthopedics

What is Orthopedics?

Orthopedics performs the diagnosis and treatment of musculoskeletal diseases, trauma injuries, hand, shoulder, elbow, knee disorders. Arthroplasty, hand, knee, shoulder, elbow, foot and ankle surgery are the main sub-branches of orthopedics. It is also possible to benefit from micro surgery in hand surgery applications performed within orthopedics. The sub-branches of the orthopedics department do not consist of only surgical intervention. Besides these; sports traumatology, lengthening, leg inequality, pediatric orthopedics and traumatology, orthopedic oncology and osteitis are among the sub-branches of orthopedics. Diseases are detected by listening to the patient's complaints, obtaining information about the patient's history and whether there is a hereditary condition in the family and physically examining the patient.