Volker Fass, MD

Specialist in orthopaedics and sports medicine in Freiburg

Our guiding principles: Even under the premise of economic action and increasingly scarce resources in medicine, it must not be a contradiction to "enter into a relationship" with the patient. We try to act according to this premise. Together, we not only look at the acute injury or illness, but always try to see it in context. In the context of the history of the injury or illness, in the context of the surrounding anatomical structures, in the context of the whole person. Because one principle is important to us: we do not treat X-rays or MRI findings - but people! This is what we use all our years of experience for!

Professional career

Studied sports science in Frankfurt, human medicine in Münster and Freiburg, doctorate in 1982, licence to practise medicine in 1984 in Freiburg/Breisgau, trained as a specialist in orthopaedics at the orthopaedic university clinic Friedrichsheim in Frankfurt, established as a specialist in orthopaedics in 1993.

Job title

Specialist in orthopaedics, sports medicine, chiropractic, head orthopaedist since 1993. Orthopaedist Orthozentrum Freiburg and Fontanaklinik an den Thermen.

Main focus

Rekonstruktive Kniegelenkchirurgie mit Schwerpunkt Kreuzbandchirurgie, Sporttraumatologie, Präventionsdiagnostik-und Therapie ( returntomove). FIFA Diplom in Football Medicine.

Prevention, rehabilitation and joint surgery. As an athlete, when can I resume my beloved sport after a joint injury - with or without surgery? returntomove gives you assistance and personal support!

Sporting career

1st and 2nd Bundesliga Kickers Offenbach, 2nd Bundesliga VFL Osnabrück, MLS (major soccer league) America - Oakland /San Jose-, 2nd Bundesliga SC Freiburg and Freiburger FC.

Fontana Clinic Freiburg

1994 Foundation of Fontana OP Zentrum (outpatient surgery centre), 2000 expansion and licensing as a private clinic for orthopaedic surgery according to § 30 Gewerbeordnung (trade regulations), specialisation in orthopaedic joint surgery and sports traumatology disorders.

International expert in knee surgery

Leading Medicine Guide awards Dr.Volker Fass the distinction of international expert in knee surgery

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