Carolina Medical Center in Poland

Carolina center’s features and narrow specialization

1. One of the first institutions in Poland, which opened a separate unit for functional diagnosis. This method makes it possible to comprehensively assess the consequences of excessive load on the musculoskeletal system, as well as evaluate the effectiveness of rehabilitation programs, making the necessary adjustments to them.
2. Carolina Center doctors were the first in the country to perform arthroscopic surgical procedures and meniscus transplantation. They also became the first in the European community to perform an ankle alloplasty.
3. The clinic’s doctor R. Smigelsky and Austrian professor K. Fink performed a unique innovative operation, in which the damaged knee joint was replaced with a modernized prosthesis, enabling the patient to return to a full-fledged active life.
4. Carolina doctors installed the Atlas system for the patient – a prosthetic knee joint that reduces pain that occurs in the inner side.
5. A few years ago, the specialists of the center performed an operation on the bones of the forearm using a 3D prosthesis on a ten-year-old child.
6. Carolina doctors created and implemented a technique for the reconstruction of the anterior cruciate ligament in the body of a growing child.

Carolina specializes in orthopedics.

Carolina Center has been performing minimally invasive arthroscopic surgeries for more than twenty years. It is here that innovative orthopedic surgical methods are used firstly in Poland. Carolina has pioneered stem cells involved in therapies of orthopedic pathologies.

It has achieved particularly productive and effective outcomes in the field of prosthetics. Carolina’s doctors first in Poland installed Hintegra – a prosthesis for the lower leg, exceptional in its properties and structure. People who have these prostheses can fully return to active life, even skiing and so on.

The experts carried out the first operation in Poland to install an ultra-modern Birmingham Hip Mid Head prosthesis for hip joints. Center also practices individually created prostheses. Such mechanisms are created for each clinical case separately and correspond to patients’ anatomical features.

Carolina Medical specialists successfully perform complex manipulations, in particular, vertebral discs stabilization with latest technological solutions, limb lengthening using Taylor spatial apparatus and Achilles tendon reconstruction.

Additionally, Carolina implements methods that are connected with growth factors. This helps to ensure rapid tissues’ repair and significantly speed up the healing. Center’s specialists use regenerative therapy with stem cells; it’s injected during surgical manipulation.

Departments and centers

1. Orthopedics.
2. Children’s orthopedics.
3. Oncoorthopedics.
4. Traumatological unit.
5. Spinal surgical division.
6. Neurosurgical unit.
7. Hand surgery.
8. Podiatry.
9. Consulting department.
10. Diagnostic division.
11. Rehab unit.

Certification & awards

1. It’s accredited by TÜV NORD DIN EN ISO – a European standard accepted and quoted in Germany.
2. Certification by the world football association as an progressive clinic with experience in promoting FIFA.
3. Patients’ choice as best orthopedic center on Bookimed website.