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Center of Foot and Ankle Disorders, Athens: Orthopaedic and foot and ankle surgery in Greece

Thanos C Badekas MD: Orthopaedic surgeon-traumatologist foot & ankle specialist
Thanos C Badekas MD: Orthopaedic foot & ankle specialist

Director of the Foot and Ankle Disorders Department of the Metropolitan Hospital in Athens, Thanos C Badekas MD is a renowned orthopaedic surgeon-traumatologist who runs the Center of Foot and Ankle Disorders in Greece.

 

Why travel to Greece for foot and ankle surgery?

Greece offers a high standard of orthopaedic surgical treatment at prices that offer excellent value for money. Why not combine treatment and recuperation with a holiday in beautiful, historic Athens?

 

Thanos C Badekas MD is a global authority on the treatment of athletic injuries of the foot and ankle. He has an impressive CV including research fellowships in the USA and medical directorship of the Foot and Ankle and Lower Extremities department, in the Polyclinic during the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.

 

 

Injuries and conditions treated at the Center of Foot and Ankle Disorders in Greece  

 

Center of Foot and Ankle Disorders bunion operation

  • skin infections

  • nail infections-injuries

  • tendonitis

  • shin splints

  • toe sprains

  • ankle sprains

  • plantar plate rupture

  • fractures

  • bunions

 

Flatfoot deformity can be corrected as a day case procedure, with a minimal incision of 2cm, for patients from the age of 8 to yield long lasting results (below).

 

Center of Foot and Ankle Disorders
Before and after photographs of flatfoot deformity correction

Thanos C Badekas MD Orthopaedic surgeon-traumatologist foot and ankle specialist 

 

Center of Foot and Ankle Disorders arthritis

Mr Badekas is a global authority on orthopaedic treatments of the foot and ankle who leads and presents at conferences around the world. He holds varios prestigious positions, including:

 

 

Total ankle arthroplasty can be performed for posttraumatic, degenerative and rheumatoid arthritis (see left).

 

 

Other procedures that can be performed are for correction of ankle instability, ankle and knee arthroscopy, all ankle and knee sports injuries, correction of cavovarus foot, diabetic foot reconstruction, rheumatoid foot reconstruction, neurologic disorders, traumatic injuries around the foot and ankle, laser therapy on the foot and ankle, correction of forefoot deformities (below).

 

Center of Foot and Ankle Disorders ankle surgery

 

Training and experience in orthopaedic surgery

His training and experience include the following highlights:

  • Graduate from the Military Medicine Academy and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1989

  • Specialization for 6 years in the Orthopaedic department of Athens University

  • Research Foot & Ankle Fellowship in Hospital for Joint Diseases New York University

  • Clinical Foot & Ankle Fellowship in Union Memorial Hospital, Baltimore

  • Deputy Secretary of the Hellenic society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology

  • Founding Member of the Greek Institute for Osteoporosis

  • Visiting Lecturer and Courses Manager in numerous scientific seminars and congresses abroad (USA, Austria, Switzerland, Netherlands, Germany, Cyprus, Turkey)

  • Director of Foot and Ankle and Lower Extremities department, in the Polyclinic during the Olympic and Palympic Games Athens 2004

 

medical team at the Olympic polyclinic Athens 2004

Contact details

Center of Foot and Ankle Disorders

51 Artemidos str

16674 Athens

Greece

 

Tel:  +30 21 0898 5630

Fax: +30 21 0898 5574

Mobile: +30 6977 07 58 51

 

Email:      thanosbadekas@gmail.com

Website: www.footandankle.gr

 

 

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