Dimitrios Nikolopoulos

Central Clinic of Athens

Dr. Dimitrios D. Nikolopoulos is a graduate of Athens University Medical School. He specialized in orthopedic surgery and traumatology at the Orthopaedic Clinic of the General Hospital “Asklepeion Voulas,” Greece, where he focused on sports injuries and foot pathology. He also specialized in hand surgery at the Microsurgery Clinic, KAT Hospital, Greece. He trained in arthroscopic restoration of hip pathology alongside Dr. Alexis Nogier at the Clinic Maussins-Nollet, Paris, and has continued his training in arthroscopic rehabilitation of sports injuries of the knee, shoulder, and ankle as well as the treatment and surgical correction of foot disorders. Dr. Nikolopoulos has published forty-two original journal articles on knee (valgus knee) and shoulder surgery (arthroscopic and minimally invasive new techniques), osteoporotic spine and hip fractures, and in vitro research on bone and cartilage metabolism. He has also presented more than 180 oral and poster presentations internationally within the last decade, namely on sports injury of the knee, shoulder, and ankle joints and arthritis of the knee and hip. He is a doctor of the University of Athens and a member of the Greek Traumatology and Orthopaedic Society, Greek Arthroscopy Society, European Arthroscopy Association, and European Society of Sports Traumatology, Knee Surgery and Arthroscopy (ESSKA), among others.

Dimitrios Nikolopoulos

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Orthopedic practice involves treating a great number of shoulder pathologies, including trauma and sports-related injuries in young adults or arthritis and rotator cuff arthropathies in elderly people. The range of movement (ROM) of the shoulder is 340 degrees, which is the reason for many problems like impingement syndrome, rotator cuff rupture, SLAP (long head of biceps pathology), shoulder fractures, rotator cuff arthropathies, shoulder tumors, and trapezium pathology, all of which are painful conditions of the upper extremity that result in serious discomfort. Shoulder pathology is primarily diagnosed by history and physical examination, but MRIs and CT scans are also very helpful for diagnosis. The mainstay of treatment involves early identification before the onset of degenerative changes, physical therapy exercises to strengthen the shoulder girdle, and pharmacological interventions to decrease inflammation. Open and arthroscopic techniques have advanced in the last decade, minimizing the possibility of rotator cuff arthropathy and arthritis. This book provides a comprehensive overview of shoulder pathologies, including shoulder instability, glenoid bone defect, greater tuberosity fractures, lesions of the proximal long head of the biceps tendon, and trapezius myalgia, as well as their different treatments, including open and arthroscopic techniques.

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