Our orthopedic department builds the most appropriate care pathway around the patient’s needs, embracing diagnosis, surgery and functional recovery in an integrated way. Conditions affecting the musculoskeletal system are treated by a multidisciplinary team that uses cutting-edge technologies within modern, well-kept facilities.
Melittaklinik brings orthopedic excellence to Bolzano
Diagnosis, surgery and rehabilitation for a tailored path
The Melittaklinik approach considers for each phase of the pathway a basic principle aiming to restore the patient’s full functional freedom, respecting individual timing and needs.
An integrated approach for a quality service
An orthopedic operation is only the beginning of a care process in which every patient has specific characteristics and needs. What sets Melittaklinik apart is an approach that, from the first meeting, involves different figures and specialists: surgeons, physiatrists, physiotherapists and nursing staff work together synergistically to outline a personalized rehabilitation program that does not end at discharge but also includes subsequent follow-up.
Medical expertise goes beyond individual specialties and follows each patient
Movement as a synonym for well-being
Why choose Melittaklinik
Melittaklinik’s orthopedic department offers a service that aims to go beyond treatment, understanding this process as a path to restore balance, posture and full functional freedom of movement. Our specialists make available to the patient the experience gained over time and the most up-to-date technologies to build with patients coherent and measurable results over time.
Therapeutic choices by Melittaklinik professionals arise from collegial discussions and shared expertise; in this way we aim to achieve qualitatively excellent results that take into account each patient’s characteristics.
”Experience, dialogue and shared expertise for quality results
Fields of intervention and conditions treated
Melittaklinik is a point of reference and orthopedics is no exception
Our orthopedic department covers every aspect of the specialty: motor difficulties, skeletal problems and surgery of the hand and foot. The conditions we treat and manage:
- Shoulder: rotator cuff injuries, calcifications, osteoarthritis, fractures, shoulder instability and adhesive capsulitis, biceps tendon rupture and impingement;
- Hip: targeted procedures for osteoarthritis, coxalgia (hip pain), fractures and impingement;
- Knee: meniscal injuries, cruciate ligament injuries and ruptures, osteoarthritis and instability;
- Foot and ankle: Achilles tendon, pediatric foot deformities, adult foot deformities (such as hallux valgus);
- Hand: fractures, carpal tunnel syndrome, cysts and trigger finger.
With the goal of ensuring short recovery times and intervening precisely while maximally preserving tissues, each procedure is carefully planned with the patient.
Minimally invasive techniques and personalized rehabilitation protocols
Melittaklinik’s orthopedic surgery team works daily with patients toward a holistic, integrated care path. A private service tailored to individual needs through which each patient can benefit from more stable results, less postoperative pain and a gradual but overall quicker recovery of mobility.
Synergy and collaboration among high-profile professionals
The orthopedic department and team
In South Tyrol, Melittaklinik’s orthopedics stands out for the high professionalism of the specialists involved and the ability to manage every aspect of the clinical pathway that, from the initial welcome, continues steadily through to post-discharge follow-up. The department is led by Dr. Julian Lair, who is responsible for and coordinates the entire team of orthopedic surgeons, physiatrists, anesthetists and physiotherapists. This cooperation between different specialties is the main factor that ensures complete continuity from a clinical and therapeutic perspective.
Head of Department
Julian Lair
Team
Ulrich Crepaz-Eger
Erich Larcher
Lukas Johannes Valtiner
An entire team available to every patient
Care that accompanies well beyond the operation
Melittaklinik’s orthopedics is a complete department that has identified continuity of service as the key to ensuring consistent attention and coherence. A team of experts works passionately on diagnosis, surgery and physiotherapy up to the return to daily life.
