All about Medical Treatment in Germany
Germany is one of the leading medical destinations in the world. In order to find the perfect hospital, you don’t need to search the web for hours.
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Successful eye tumor treatment
After more than ten years of experience and the treatment of more than 1,400 patients, the facilities for eye tumor treatment at Berlin’s Charité hospital have recently been re-branded: “BerlinProtonen” stands for ultra-modern and precise forms of therapy for intraocular cancers. Through the cooperation of medical physicists, radiotherapists and eye specialists, proton therapy has developed into a real success story. Today, tumor growth in 95 per cent of patients can be controlled. The majority of patients with large tumors retain good use of the affected eye following the proton therapy in Berlin.
Ion and proton therapy in Germany
In addition to the recently opened Heidelberg Ion-Beam Therapy Center (HIT), two other centers in Germany (in Marburg and in Kiel) will be offering combined proton and carbon ion treatment in the next three years. Another center in Munich, the Rinecker Proton Therapy Center (RPTC) began radiation treatment with protons in March 2009. The Westdeutsche Protonentherapiezentrum in Essen will follow in 2010. Recent progress in the area of ion and proton therapy in Germany and medical treatment in general is the result of key players working closely together. For the HIT project, for example, four prestigious institutes have been involved since the planning stage: the Department of Radiation Oncology at Heidelberg University Hospital, the GSI Helmholtzzentrum for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt, the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg, and the Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf. Moreover, HIT was implemented as a cooperation project between the Department of Radiation Oncology at Heidelberg University Hospital and Siemens, which was responsible for the installation of the radiation units.
Learning to walk again
Can robots help stroke patients learn to walk again? The neurologist Prof. Dr. Stefan Hesse from the Median Clinic in Berlin thinks so. As a specialist in physical medicine and rehabilitation of patients after a stroke, paraplegia or skull-brain trauma, he wants to help partially paralysed stroke patients regain their lost motor abilities as much as possible. To achieve this, training is very important. However, this training is enormously strenuous for the therapists, who hold, support and lead the patients. Now the Haptic Walker has taken over this task. The robot has been tested in clinical practice and meets real-life demands.
Real life examples
The Medical Tourism Magazine recently featured several articles on the treatment of international patients in German clinics. On the one hand you can read about minimally invasive heart operations and stem cell treatments, or innovative approaches to hip joint surgery and regaining a pain-free function of the spine. In the same articles you will also get information on cost comparisons, language fluency, international office processes and charity treatments.
Spread the word
No doubt, Germany is a first-rate location for international patients. However, does the world know about it? In order to spread the word, representatives from German clinics participated in last year’s World Medical Tourism Congress in Los Angeles. The clinic representatives made it clear to the delegates that liposuction and teeth bleaching can also be done in other regions of the world. However, in terms of medical know-how and state-of-the-art treatment Germany clearly is a top-notch location. In addition, Germany is competitive in terms of costs. Leonore Boscher, head of the international office at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, said that the cost of a heart bypass operation in the U.S. depends on the reputation of the physician and ranges from 95,000 dollars to 200,000 dollars whereas in Germany there is a fixed price. “That makes Germany an interesting destination – not only for wealthy and well-insured Americans.”
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