Dr. med. Daniel Goricki

Specialist for Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology of the locomotor system FMH Sports medicine SGSM

„The focus of my orthopaedic work is on sports orthopaedics and the treatment of the foot and knee, thereby saving the joint. My range is rounded off by knee and hip replacements. My years of clinical work with patients, my sound specialised knowledge, the striving for perfection and precision and the pleasure of being able to help people, forms the basis of my work as a doctor.“

Expertise and Competences

Conservative therapy

 Provision of all conservative (non-operative) therapeutic approaches

 Evaluation of the surgery indications (in the form of a 2nd opinion)

 

General

 Muscle and tendon surgery on the entire locomotor system

 Treatment of fractures affecting the entire locomotor system incl. revision surgery

 2nd opinions

 

Foot and Ankle

 Achilles tendon surgery

 Complex revision surgery affecting the Achilles tendon (with endogenous and foreign tissue)

 Arthroscopic interventions

 Complex stabilising ligament reconstructions of the ankle

 Tendon transfers and reconstructions (including with Allograft)

 Forefoot surgery incl. Hallux Valgus, clawed toes and hammer toes

 Operative treatment of Morton´s neuroma

 Operative treatment of therapy-resistant plantar fasciosis (heel spur)

 Arthroscopic assisted release of a chronical exertional compartment syndrome

 Arthrodesis/Fusion of painful/arthrotic joints of the foot and ankle

 Surgical interventions with neuropathies (nerve pain) in the lower leg and the foot

 

Knee

 Complex multi-ligament reconstruction in the knee joint

 Anterior cruciate ligament reconstrution surgery

 Posterior cruciate ligament reconstruction surgery

 Complex revision surgery of the anterior and posterior cruciate ligament with recurring rupture or insufficiency

 Complex reconstructions using foreign tendons and bones

 Stabilising and realignement surgery of the patella (MPFL plasty and trochleaplasty)

 Axis corrections/corrective osteotomies close to the knee joint

 Ultra-modern cartilage surgery (incl. cartilage cell transplantation)

 Meniscus surgery (including meniscus transplantation)

 Partial knee replacement

 Total knee replacement

 Knee replacement revision surgery

 Neuropathies (nerve pain) surgery close to the knee joint

 

Hips

 Surgical corrections of hip impingements

 Total hip replacement

Career

  • May 2017 – Today
    Owner of Athlon Orthopedics, Basel
  • 2011 – May 2017
    Rennbahnklink Muttenz, Head of Orthopaedic Surgery of the Lower Extremities since 2014, acting as Clinic Director since 2015
  • 2010 – 2011
    Senior Physician for Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology of the Locomotor System (focus on foot surgery) and Traumatology under Prof. K. Stoffel, Dr. H. Bereiter and Dr. Ch. Sommer at the Cantonal Hospital in Chur
  • 2009 – 2010
    Senior Physician at the Cantonal Hospital in Olten under Prof. R. Elke, focus on foot surgery, replacements and traumatology
  • 2008
    Harold Vasey Prize for the best medical specialist examination throughout Switzerland for the year 2008
  • 2008 – 2009
    Deputy Senior Physician at the Emmental AG Regional Hospital in Burgdorf under PD Dr. A. Gerber, focus on foot and shoulder surgery and traumatology
  • 2004 – 2007
    Orthopaedics and traumatology of the locomotor system with Prof. K. A. Siebenrock and Prof. R. Ganz, hand surgery with Prof. U. Büchler and Prof. E. Vögelin, Bern University Hospital
  • 2003
    Doctorate obtained
  • 2002 – 2004
    Visceral and transplantation surgery with Prof. D. Candinas and thoracic surgery with Prof. R.A. Schmid at Bern University Hospital
  • 2002
    Neurosurgery at Prof. O. Gratzl University Hospital in Basel
  • 1995 – 2001
    Study in medicine at the University of Basel