Dr. Wiedenhöfer has been working for more than 20 years in the field of orthopedics and trauma surgery with a focus on spine therapy, since 1998 conservative and operating for more than 15 years. For more than ten years, he has worked as senior Senior Physician, Section Head, and Chief Physician of specialized spine departments. It covers the entire spectrum of spine surgery from minimally invasive surgery to complex deformity. The treatment of deformities (scoliosis and kyphosis) in children, adolescents and adults has always been a major focus of his work alongside the treatment of wear-related disorders. As a speaker, instructor and organizer of continuing education courses of the DWG, the DGOOC and other institutions, he is regularly active and is in constant technical exchange with national and international specialists in spine surgery.
Degree: Human Medicine At The Friedrich-wilhelms-university Bonn 1996
Residency: Department of General and Trauma Surgery, Ev. Hospital Bonn;
Since 2018 Chief Physician "The Spine - Center for Spine Surgery" at the ATOS Clinic Heidelberg
2015 -2017 Chief Physician of the Department of Spinal Surgery of the Schön Klinik Lorsch
2009 -2015 Spokesman of the interdisciplinary Spine Center of the University Clinic Heidelberg
2008 - 2015 Head of the Department of Spinal Surgery, Department of Orthopedics, Traumatology and Paraplegiology, University of Heidelberg; Director Prof. V. Ewerbeck
2007 - 2008 Senior Consultant of the Orthopedic University Hospital Heidelberg, Department of Orthopedics II; Director: Professor dr. HJ Gerner
2005 - 2007 Senior Physician of the Orthopedic University Hospital Heidelberg, Department of Orthopedics II; Director: Professor dr. med. HJ Gerner
2004 - 2005 Specialist in Orthopedics, Cerebral Palsy and Technical Orthopedics, Foundation Orthopedic University Hospital Heidelberg, Department of Orthopedics II; Director: Professor dr. med. HJ Gerner
2002 - 2004 Medical Assistant and Research Assistant at the Chair of Orthopedics and Orthopedic Surgery of the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen - Nuremberg at the Waldkrankenhaus St. Marien Erlangen; Director: Prof. Dr. med. med. R. Forst
1998 - 2002 Assistant Doctor, Department of Orthopedics, St. Josef Hospital Bonn; Chief Physician: Dr. med. med. N. moss
1996 - 1998 Internship, Department of General and Trauma Surgery, Ev. Hospital Bonn; Chief Physician: Professor med. DW Schröder and Department of Orthopedics, St. Josef Hospital Bonn; Chief Physician: Dr. med. med. N. moss
2005 - 2008 Quality Officer of the Department of Orthopedics II Lecturer for Student Education (Heidelberg Curriculum Medicinale = HEICUMED) of the Department of Orthopedics II
2005 Qualification Transfusion Officer Physician
2006 Qualification Hygiene Officer Doctor
2013 -2015 Montpellier Commissioner of the Faculty of Medicine
2013 - 2016 Coordination of the AG Deformities of the German Spinal Society (DWG)
Is Total Disc Replacement a Cost Effective Treatment for Cervical Degenerative Disc Disease? Clinical spine surgery.
Management of Pharyngeal Fistulas After Anterior Cervical Spine Surgery: A Treatment Algorithm for Severe
Complications. Clinical spine surgery.
Osteointegration and Resorption of Intra- and Extravertebral Calcium Phosphate Cement. Clinical spine surgery.
Clinical long-term outcome, technical success, and cost analysis of radiofrequency ablation for the treatment of osteoblastomas and spinal osteoid osteomas in comparison to open surgical resection.
Skeletal radiology 44 (7):981-993.
Do overhead sports increase risk for rotator cuff tears in wheelchair users? Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation 96 (3):484-488.
[Evaluation of the sagittal profile in patients with thoracic adolescent idiopathic scoliosis Lenke type 1 following posterior correction]. Der Orthopade 42 (3):150-156.
[Radiological diagnostics of spinal tumors. Part 2: special diagnostics of intradural tumors and tumor-like lesions]. Der Orthopade 41 (8):608-617.
[Vertebral stability in management of spinal metastases. Criteria and strategies for operative interventions]. Der Orthopade 41 (8):623-631.
[Gold standard for implant selection in operative therapy of spondylitis/spondylodiscitis]. Der Orthopade 41 (9):721-726.
[Tumor management of the spine - no place for soloists]. Der Orthopade 41 (8):593-594.
[Therapy strategies for the septic spine: state of the art]. Der Orthopade 41 (9):701.
[Radiofrequency ablation in spinal osteoid osteoma. Options and limits]. Der Orthopade 41 (8):618-622.
[Radiological diagnostics of spinal tumors. Part 1: general tumor diagnostics and special diagnostics of extradural tumors]. Der Orthopade 41 (8):595-607.
[Therapy of unspecific destructive spondylodiscitis with special consideration to sagittal alignment]. Der Orthopade 41 (9):736-741.
Kyphoplasty in patients with multiple myeloma a retrospective comparative pilot study. Journal of surgical oncology 105 (7):679-686.
[Pyogenic spondylodiscitis: therapy algorithm and a new classification for therapeutic decision-making]. Der Orthopade 41 (9):749-758.
[Role and limitations of vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty in the management of spinal metastases]. Der Orthopade 41 (8):640-646.
[Management of spinal metastases, strategies and surgical indications]. Der Orthopade 41 (8):632-639.
[Multiplan correction of a 3D deformity. Options and relevance of optimizing the thoracic kyphosis in reconstructive scoliosis surgery]. Der Orthopade 40 (8):672-681.
[Effect of lumbar hybrid instrumentation and rigid fusion on the treated and the adjacent segments. A biomechanical study]. Der Orthopade 40 (2):169-177.
[Importance of sagittal balance of the spinal column : X-ray cosmetics or key to success?]. Der Orthopade 40 (8):660.
Sensory innervation of the thoracolumbar fascia in rats and humans. Neuroscience 194:302-308. d
The effect of polytrauma as a possible confounder in the outcome of monotraumatic vs polytraumatic paraplegic patients: a clinical cohort study. Spinal cord 49 (6):721-727.
Neurological and functional recovery in multiple injured patients with paraplegia: outcome after 1 year. The Journal of trauma 70 (5):1078-1085.
[Importance of sagittal alignment in spinal revision surgery]. Der Orthopade 40 (8):713-718.
Prediction of immediate and long-term benefit after kyphoplasty of painful osteoporotic vertebral fractures by preoperative MRI. European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society 37 (4):379-386.
[Correction of adolescent kyphosis. What is the state of the art?]. Der Orthopade 40 (8):682-689.
[Sagittal deformity. Basic principles of surgical strategies]. Der Orthopade 40 (8):661-671.
[Pyogenic spondylodiscitis of the thoracic and lumbar spine : a new classification and guide for surgical decision-making]. Der Orthopade 40 (7):614-623.
Long-term results of hip arthroplasty in ambulatory patients with cerebral palsy. International orthopaedics 34 (3):335-339.
Spinal Fusion of an Unstable Atlantoaxial Fracture in a Completely Tetraplegic Patient Using Silicate-Substituted Calcium Phosphate. European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society 36 (2):169-175.
Clinical presentation of spondylodiscitis as a long-term complication in incomplete paraplegia: a report of three cases. Spinal cord 48 (10):779-782.
Vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty - inefficient treatments for degenerative spine disease. Experimental and clinical endocrinology & diabetes : official journal, German Society of Endocrinology [and] German Diabetes Association 118 (2):71-74.
[Collagen hydroxyapatite (Healos) saturated with gentamicin or levofloxacin. In vitro antimicrobial effectiveness - a pilot study]. Der Orthopade 39 (4):437-443.
The role of kyphoplasty in the management of osteogenesis imperfecta: risk or benefit? European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society 19 Suppl 2:S144-148.
[Kyphectomy in myelomeningocele patients. Longterm results, complications and risk analysis]. Der Orthopade 39 (8):792-800.
[Urogenic spondylodiscitis]. Der Orthopade 38 (4):355-356, 358-360, 362-354.
Progressive spastic paraplegia: the combination of Scheuermann's disease, a short-segmented kyphosis and dysplastic thoracic spinous processes. Spinal cord 47 (7):570-572.
Re: Chi JH, Gokaslan Z, Chi JH, Gokaslan Z, et al. Selecting treatment for patients with malignant epidural spinal cord compression--does age matter? Results from a randomized clinical trial. Spine 2009;34:431-5. Spine 34 (17):1884-1885.
Assessment of the sympathetic level of lesion in patients with spinal cord injury. Spinal cord 47 (11):835; author reply 836-837.
The effect of early surgical treatment on recovery in patients with metastatic compression of the spinal cord. The Journal of bone and joint surgery British volume 91 (2):240-244.
Der Chirurg; Zeitschrift fur alle Gebiete der operativen Medizen 79 (10):937-943.
Tokuhashi prognosis score: an important tool in prediction of the neurological outcome in metastatic spinal cord compression: a retrospective clinical study. Spine 33 (24):2669-2674.
