DR. MED. CHRISTOPHER TOPAR
Orthopedist
SPINE SPECIALIST
FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE
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Dr. Topar is a back specialist and orthopaedist in private practice in Berlin. In addition to general orthopaedics, he specializes in sports medicine, chirotherapy/manual therapy and acupuncture. Pain therapy by pinpointing the source of pain is Dr. Topar’s specialty. Other areas of focus include minimally invasive spinal therapy and procedures on joints such as the shoulder, knee and hip. He received his qualification both in the USA and at the OCM (Orthopaedic Surgery Munich). Since then, Dr. Topar has been using the techniques with great success and is constantly developing them further. He is also a regular trainer. Dr. Topar is a member of the board of the German Society for Spine Therapy (DGWT) and a founding member of the GIW (Society for Interventions on the Spine), as well as a member of the International Spine Intervention Society (ISIS).
Certificates
Sports medicine
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and acupuncture
Chirotherapy
Ultrasound of the muscular system
Professional career
2006
Dissertation at the Medical Faculty of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
since 2005
Establishment in private practice as a specialist in orthopaedics and sports medicine, Berlin
2002-2005
Resident at the Department of Orthopaedics of the Orthopaedic Surgery Munich (OCM), specialty: spine
2001-2002
Assistant doctor at the Department of Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine, Rehabilitation at the Medical Park Bad Wiessee St. Hubertus
2000-2001
Resident at the Department of Orthopaedics at the Bogenhausen Clinic of the Municipal Hospital of Munich
1998-1999
Internship at the Department of Plastic, Reconstructive, Hand and Burn Surgery at the Bogenhausen Clinic of the Munich Municipal Hospital
Work shadowing
- Assistant in General Surgery and Vascular Surgery at Straub Clinic & Hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii
- Assistant, Department of plastic surgery, reconstructive- and handsurgery, burn-surgery
Aesthetic & Plastic Surgery Institute of the University of California, Irvine (UCI) - Assistant, Physiatry – Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R), Sports Medicine
Hospital for Special Surgery, New York
Speaker activities
- Regular presentations at various international meetings and conferences (e.g. on behalf of DGWT, IGOST, ISIS)
- Topics: Epidural injections, radiofrequency therapy, intradiscal electrothermal therapy (IDET), nucleoplasty, decompression of the intervertebral discs
Memberships
- Since 2006: Board member of the German Society for Spinal Therapy (DGWT)
- Founding member of the Society for Interventions on the Spine (GIW)
- International Spine Intervention Society (ISIS)
- German Society for Orthopaedics and Orthopaedic Surgery (DGOOC)
- International Society of Chinese Medicine (Societas Medicinae Sinensis: SMS)
- German-Austrian-Swiss Society for Orthopaedic-Traumatologic Sports Medicine (GOTS)
- Interdisciplinary Society for Orthopaedic/Accident Surgery and General Pain Therapy (IGOST)
