Rheumatology

E.g. rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, spondyloarthropathies (including Bechterew’s disease, reactive arthritis), collagenoses (including SLE, scleroderma, Sjögren’s disease, mixed collagenoses), polymyalgia rheumatica, vasculitides (including vascular and small-vessel vasculitis), metabolic arthropathies (gout, pseudogout), Lyme disease, fibromyalgia/soft tissue rheumatism, degenerative spinal and joint diseases

Including joint pain with or without swelling, muscle pain, tendon insertion pain, fever syndromes, Raynaud syndrome, increased inflammatory markers, skin alterations, back and whole-body pain

Comprehensive medical history, individualised questionnaire, upper abdominal sonography, joint ultrasound diagnostics with colour Doppler/power Doppler analysis, diagnostic punctures with joint/synovial analysis, laboratory tests in cooperation, advanced X-ray and modern cross-sectional imaging diagnostics (CT and MRI), as well as bone density measurement in cooperation with Radiology Südost and joint consultative discussions

Initiation of guideline-oriented conservative local and systemic drug therapy, performance of infusions (biologics) and injections, sonographically guided joint punctures and injection therapies, spinal infiltrations, vaccinations and vaccination advice, taking into account immunomodulatory rheumatism therapy with interaction with the body’s immune system.

Nutritional advice taking into account the individual history for therapy support, osteological diagnostics and therapy, guideline-oriented initiation and monitoring of physical measures including consultative discussions, organisation and implementation of full-body pain therapy using the Elosan cabin as an effective electrophysical measure for the treatment of acute/especially chronic pain as an ideal complement to interdisciplinary multimodal treatment concepts