The Clinic for Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology at Bern's Inselspital has a long tradition. Prof. Maurice E. Müller was the Director of the Clinic for Orthopaedics at the Inselspital from 1963 to 1980. To this day, Bern is known across the globe for achievements and innovations in orthopaedics and trauma surgery. In the 1960s, Prof. Maurice E. Müller played a major role in the development of the total hip replacement along with modern osteosynthesis techniques. As a founding member of the International Hip Society and the AO Foundation, Maurice E. Müller was a pioneer in modern orthopaedic surgery.
His successor, Prof. Reinhold Ganz, Director of the Clinic for Orthopaedics at the Inselspital from 1981 to 2004, pioneered hip joint preservation surgery. His achievements, including periacetabular osteotomy, safe surgical dislocation of the hip without risk of necrosis and the discovery of femoroacetabular impingement, represent milestones in hip surgery.
Since 2005, Prof. Klaus A. Siebenrock has been Director of the Clinic for Orthopaedics at the Inselspital. Together with his team, he has further developed hip joint preservation surgery to the highest level. Under his leadership, prominent experts in hip joint preservation surgery gather at the Bern Hip Symposium every two years in Bern.
Successful symposium on joint-preserving hip surgery with international experts from eight countries. A live surgery demonstrating surgical hip dislocation with a femoral osteotomy and open treatment of femoral head avascular necrosis was presented. The symposium articles were published in the internationally renowned journal for orthopaedic surgery « Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research® » under a separate symposium.
For his achievements in the field of pelvis and hip surgery, Prof. Dr. med. Klaus A. Siebenrock was awarded the Pauwels Medal on 27 October at the German Congress of Orthopaedics and Traumatology in Berlin.
In the 1990s, Prof. R. Ganz developed the surgical hip dislocation. This procedure allows dislocation of the hip without the risk of avascular necrosis. This innovative way of accessing the hip joint lead to new understanding of various hip pathologies such as femoroacetabular impingement and cleared the way for innovative surgical therapy.
In 1984, Prof. Prof. R. Ganz performed the first periacetabular osteotomy (PAO). Compared to earlier osteotomies, this type of pelvic osteotomy has the benefit of very high acetabular reorientation potential in combination with improved pelvic ring stability due to the intact posterior column. In the meantime, PAO has become the gold standard in the treatment of hip dysplasia.
Prof. Dr. med. R. Ganz was Director of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology at the Inselspital from 1981 to 2004. He pioneered hip joint preservation surgery. His achievements, including periacetabular osteotomy, safe surgical dislocation of the hip without risk of necrosis and the discovery of femoroacetabular impingement, represent milestones in hip surgery.
For decades now, the Orthopaedic Clinic at Inselspital Bern has received fellows interested in expanding their knowledge of hip surgery. Since the time of Prof. Maurice E. Müller, the Orthopaedic Clinic has received hundreds of visiting physicians from all over the world.
Along with Frank E. Stinchfield and Sir John Charnely, Prof. Maurice E. Müller was a founding member of the International Hip Society in the year 1976. The image brings together the International Hip Society on the balcony of the Inselspital.
In the 1960s, Prof. Maurice E. Müller played a major role in the development of the total hip replacement. The design he developed together with Sir John Charnely is still used to this day in a modified form.
Prof. Maurice E. Müller was a founding member of the AO Foundation which was formed in the year 1958. The AO revolutionised the knowledge and techniques used in osteosynthesis. To this day, it remains the leading organisation in traumatology for development and training.
As he began his career in orthopaedics, Maurice E. Müller completed his doctoral studies in 1946 with a thesis on Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease.
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