About clinic
The Földi multidisciplinary clinic enjoys great prestige among well-known representatives of the medical community and patients due to the success of its team in the treatment of many serious diseases and pathologies. Experienced doctors introduce the practice of an interdisciplinary approach into the treatment process. A joint team of doctors with different specializations is more dynamic in solving non-standard situations, making diagnoses and deciding on a treatment regimen. Medical teams include: lymphologists, surgeons, physiotherapists, psychiatrists, nutritionists and therapists.
When a patient with a particularly rare type of disease or a severe course of the disease is admitted to the clinic, specialized doctors from the University of Freiburg are invited to the consultation for additional consultation. University specialists provide significant support to the clinic, effectively using the capabilities of the institution's latest technical base and the knowledge gained in the course of studying innovative technologies.
A highly professional team of clinic specialists in medical practice relies on international treatment standards, the latest medical techniques and applies humanistic principles in the provision of medical care.
The package of medical services provided in Földi is quite wide. This includes treatment with the use of medications, and physiotherapy procedures, surgical interventions and emergency care.
The clinic was founded by experienced research doctors Michael and Etelka Földi. They, occupying professorships, effectively investigate the causes of diseases of the lymphatic system. Their productive activity brought the specialized hospital to the first place not only in Germany, but also to the leading positions in the world.
All branches of the medicine in clinic
Clinic doctors
Prices for procedures
Diagnostics
Treatment
Autogenic training in a group | Price on request |
Bobat therapy | Price on request |
Compression therapy (banding or compression knitwear) | Price on request |
Decongestant therapeutic gymnastics | Price on request |
Ergotherapy | Price on request |
Functional kinetics | Price on request |
Hygienic skin care procedures for the prevention of erysipelas | Price on request |
Manual lymphatic drainage massage | Price on request |
Physical therapy McKenzie method | Price on request |
Plastic surgical correction with lymphedema of the genitalia | Price on request |
Proprioceptive neuromuscular stretching PNR | Price on request |
Removal of lymphangiomas | Price on request |
Removal of the lymphatic fistula | Price on request |
Skin tightening | Price on request |
SVF therapy | Price on request |
Therapeutic gymnastics | Price on request |
Traction therapy | Price on request |
Transplantation of lymphocollectors Baumeister | Price on request |
The German clinic is located in the south of the Black Forest region, near Freiburg. The medical center was built in a mountainous area at an altitude of 900 m above sea level.
You can get to Freiburg from other regions and countries using the services of the airports: Zurich, Basel, Stuttgart, Frankfurt. There is a railroad near the clinic.
- The team of the clinic is the founder of the “Complex physical anti-edematous therapy”, which has become the basis for the conservative treatment of lymphedema throughout the world.
- When prescribing treatment for patients with a complex diagnosis, specialists from other institutions consider the conclusions of Földi's doctors as decisive.
- Therapeutic procedures prescribed by doctors fully meet the requirements of German and international specialized communities.
- All treatment and infrastructure spaces of the clinic are equipped with lifts adapted to the needs of patients with reduced mobility.
- The hospital has organized a patient advisory support service, which includes psychologists, nutritionists and specialized specialists.
- It is convenient to combine treatment in the hospital with recreational activities, since the complex is successfully integrated into the surrounding forest landscape.
- The service of selection according to individual parameters and the production of compression stockings is available to patients.
Therapy
The main profile of the department is the treatment of lymphatic edema according to the original Földi method.
Patients receive the widest range of services, which include not only traditional therapeutic procedures, but also massage techniques, physiotherapy complexes, and assistance to children with special needs.
The department specializes in the treatment of lymphedema, a pathological condition characterized as progressive swelling of soft tissues. In the treatment of this complex disease, the clinic's specialists have achieved significant results using the effective tools of the Földi method. These include:
- Manual lymphatic drainage.
- Banding.
- The use of compression stockings.
- Anti-edematous therapeutic exercises.
- Sports activities.
- Preventive skin care to prevent erysipelas.
- Training seminars on self-therapy methods outside the clinic.
The method on which the course of treatment is based includes two phases:
1. The course of treatment in the inpatient department aimed at reducing lymphatic edema consists of:
- Cycle of manual therapy.
- Use of a compression bandage.
- Cosmetic skin care.
- Sports activities aimed at eliminating edema.
2. Outpatient treatment. It is designed to strengthen and consolidate the result achieved at the first stage.
Doctors attribute to patients:
- Massage that stimulates the outflow of lymph.
- Use of compression stockings.
- Gymnastic exercises.
- Sports activities.
- Comprehensive skin treatments.
Specialists of the Földi clinic, among other things, practice the treatment of concomitant diseases associated with problems of the lymph flow. Patients are treated by experienced orthopedists and neurologists.
Physiotherapy
In the therapy of lymphatic vessels, doctors adhere to the principle of an integrated approach in solving the problems of improving clients. For this, a scheme of drug treatment, physiotherapy and occupational therapy is selected on an individual basis. This comprehensive treatment approach and productive partnerships between the team of doctors and patients help to speed up the process of recovery and rehabilitation.
To reduce pain, improve the functioning of the musculoskeletal system and improve the general psycho-emotional state of the patient help:
- Manual therapy.
- Gymnastics on a neurophysiological basis:
- McKenzie Method.
- Therapy by the Dorn method.
- Functional kinetics.
- Therapeutic gymnastics with sports equipment.
- Memory and attention training.
- Sensitivity training.
- Renewal of household skills.
- Manipulations to develop joint mobility.
- "Schools of walking".
The Földi Clinic develops complexes for collective sports therapy, taking into account the boundaries of edema, the person's personal level of mobility, and the type of lymphedema.
Surgery
The department practices a close collaboration of surgical doctors and general practitioners. Here, surgical interventions are performed to combat lymphedema in order to enhance the effect of conservative treatment.
Surgical operations performed in the department:
- Skin tightening after previously performed physiotherapeutic anti-edematous therapy of stage III lymphedema of elephantiasis.
- Removal of lymphatic fistula, lymphangiomas.
- Intimate plastic.
- Transplantation of lymph collectors according to Baumeister.
The doctors of the department have to their credit a lot of scientific developments of the Freiburg University Hospital, including those that make it possible to effectively and safely treat patients with a pronounced acute phase of the disease, successfully carry out rehabilitation and provide medical services on an outpatient basis.
Treatment of chronic wounds
Doctors of the clinic treat wounds caused by lymphedema following the standards set by medical societies in Germany and Europe: the German Society for Wound Healing, the European Association for Wound Management.
The department adheres to the interdisciplinary principle in the diagnosis and treatment of the underlying disease. The leading areas of work of the department are the implementation of anti-edematous therapy, surgical cleaning of wounds and skin grafting.
The clinic provides treatment for:
- Ulcers of the lower extremities.
- Violations of wound healing due to:
- maceration,
- mycosis,
- erysipelas,
- abscess,
- necrotizing fasciitis in chronic lymphedema stage III,
- operations,
- radiotherapy,
- palliative situations,
- post-traumatic disorders.
The hospital has 76 single and 38 double rooms, including rooms for patients with disabilities.
- The services of an interpreter.
- Child care service for children from 3 years old.
- Game room.
- Wi-Fi.
- Gym.
- Library.
- Cafe.
- Park area.
- General lymphology.
- Oncological rehabilitation.
- Children's lymphology.
- Geriatric lymphology.
- Primary and secondary lymphedema.
- Lymphedema associated with obesity.
- Disorders of wound healing.
- Generalized edema.
- Lymphatic drainage.
- Decongestant motor therapy.
- Compression therapy.
- Manual therapy.