Rüdiger Schmidt-Wiethoff

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Rüdiger Schmidt-Wiethoff (born May 7, 1965 in Korbach ) is a German sports doctor and university professor .

Life

Schmidt-Wiethoff studied human medicine between 1986 and 1992 at the Philipps University in Marburg and at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf . His doctoral thesis, completed in 1993, dealt with the subject of "Ultrasound examination for spinal muscular atrophy". As a result of his service as a doctor in an internship and as an assistant doctor in Düsseldorf, he received his medical license in 1994 . From 1994 to 1996 Schmidt-Wiethoff worked as an assistant doctor in the trauma surgery department of the Mainz University Clinic and from 1996 to 1999 also as an assistant doctor at the Stuttgart Sports Clinic. During his service in Stuttgart, he completed his training as a specialist in orthopedics as well as his additional qualification in the field of sports medicine.

Between 2000 and 2007 he worked at the Cologne Clinic for Orthopedics and Sports Traumatology. In 2004 Schmidt-Wiethoff completed his habilitation and was appointed private lecturer in "Biomechanical, clinical and morphological studies for the replacement of the anterior cruciate ligament using press-fit technology". On April 1, 2005, he took up a professorship at the Institute for Biomechanics and Orthopedics of the German Sport University Cologne . In 2006 he became a specialist in "orthopedics and trauma surgery". Schmidt-Wiethoff worked at the sports university until 2008. At the beginning of 2008 he took over the medical management of the ARCUS Sportklinik Pforzheim.

He is an honorary board member of the German-Austrian-Swiss Society for Orthopedic-Traumatological Sports Medicine (GOTS) as well as a member of the advisory board of the journal "Sportorthopädie - Sporttraumatologie" and the German Research Center for Competitive Sports .

In his research work, Schmidt-Wiethoff deals, among other things, with sports injuries (especially of the knee), endurance sports from an orthopedic point of view and the shoulder. In 2001 and 2002 he headed the research project "Use of raster stereography to quantify normal and abnormal shoulder blade movement" on the latter topic.

Individual evidence

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