Traumatology

Traumatology is today used in the broadest sense in the medical language.  It has always been associated with orthopedics discipline and the name has been established as the department of Orthopedics and Traumatology.

Traumatology is a discipline that includes emergency treatment in cases caused by trauma.

Briefly, traumatology is a branch of medicine that deals with traumatic lesions such as wounds, fractures, burns, bruises, dislocations. Traumatology aims to restore damaged and injured movement system elements (bones, joints) to their former functions and to save the life of the injured person.

Traumatology covers topics such as upper extremity fractures, lower extremity fractures, pseudoarthrosis and malunions, traumatology radiology, fractures requiring surgical treatment, vertebral fractures, pelvis fractures, acetabulum fractures, child fractures, and dislocations.