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In the orthopedic center and on the slopes: With a passion for sport and medicine

2021-02-18T05:25:19.422Z


The Wolfratshausen Orthopedic Center on Sauerlacher Strasse is in new hands. The doctors also look after the German ski cross team and are regularly on duty with the rescue helicopter.


The Wolfratshausen Orthopedic Center on Sauerlacher Strasse is in new hands.

The doctors also look after the German ski cross team and are regularly on duty with the rescue helicopter.

Wolfratshausen - They met almost 15 years ago at the Harlaching Clinic - as an assistant doctor in trauma surgery.

Ten years ago, the three orthopedic surgeons decided to get together in a joint practice at some point.

At the beginning of the year the time had come: Dr.

Leonhard Gliera, Dr.

Rüdiger Kirr and Hermann Unterhuber took over the orthopedic practice from Dr.

Hartmut Kirchhübel at Sauerlacher Strasse 32a.

Gliera and Unterhuber came to the practice as employed doctors in 2018 and 2019.

Last in the group is Rüdiger Kirr.

Like Kirchhübel, he is a certified knee specialist and wants to “carry on his legacy”.

Most recently, Kirr worked as a senior physician in the specialist center for hip, knee and shoulder surgery in the Schön-Klinik Harlaching.

There he performed 800 to 1000 operations per year, he said, most of them on the knee: “Above all, arthroscopies, ie knee joint endoscopy, cruciate ligament tears and knee prostheses.” But he has also established a new method for screwing fatigue fractures in the pelvis.

He can perform arthroscopies and other minor interventions in the Wolfratshauser practice on an outpatient basis, for more extensive operations there are beds available in the district clinic.

But it is important to Kirr that he is not “only” seen as a knee specialist: “I am there for all orthopedic problems.” As a specialist in general surgery, he even dares to do an appendectomy if necessary, he says with a smile, “but of course that is missing Experience".

His colleagues Gliera and Unterhuber focus on hip and shoulder prosthetics as well as spinal problems.

Sports injuries are part of everyday practice for the three orthopedic surgeons.

Rüdiger Kirr is also the official team doctor of the German Ski Association for Alpine and Freestyle.

Two to three times a year he looks after the German ski cross team at competitions.

Again, it's mostly about the knee: every winter, Kirr treats several cruciate ligament ruptures.

No less dramatic are the missions that Kirr and Gliera lead as an emergency doctor in the rescue helicopter.

Both fly twice a month on board "Christoph 1" to seriously injured people in Munich and the surrounding area.

Kirr was already fascinated by emergency medicine and air rescue as a doctor during an internship: "It was there that I saw a rescue helicopter for the first time and immediately knew: one day I want to be inside this bird."

It was football that brought Kirr to orthopedics: As a young player at TSV Pähl, he had to see a doctor more often himself - that aroused his interest in "bone repairing".

Kirr is still playing at FC Hertha Munich today.

Sport plays an important role in the life of the family man.

He runs, is an avid skier and ambitious cyclist.

His colleagues are no less athletic: both also play soccer.

Unterhuber has meanwhile dedicated himself to triathlon and competes in Ironman.

The three orthopedic surgeons are looking forward to new, albeit less sporting, challenges.

"Our next major project is to advance digitization step by step and make the location fit for the future," explains Kirr.

They increasingly want to offer alternative treatment methods such as chiropractic therapy or plasma autologous blood therapy.

The aim for the next few years is to develop sports medicine performance diagnostics.

"With the help of lactate measurements, maximum oxygen uptake and other criteria, we can determine the optimal load range not only for ambitious athletes, but also for cardiac patients, for example," says Kirr.

With their own athletic experience, the medical team wants to support their patients in using the health benefits of physical activity in every phase of life.

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Source: merkur

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