Orthos as in straight and paidos as in child, the title called orthopedics is a combination of these two words. In the early days, orthopedics was mainly about preventive medicine. However as generations passed, orthopedics developed into a more broad and specific medicine.
Orthopedics, in medical fields, is defined as a study of extremities and spines including there accessaries to maintain, rehabilitate and develope in medical, surgical and physical aspect. In respect to this definition, orthopedical team of Inha university are trained by specialized professors, in many different fields including hip, knee, spine, hand, foot and pediatric. They are taught medically and surgically in diagnosis, treatment, and prevention and are actively trained by many different cases.
Orthopedics department represents a great part of Inha university. Residents and professors also take great pride and responsibility to teach and train.
Inha university hospital, whose predecessor is Sung-nam inha hospital, was in a close coordination relationship with Sung-nam inha hospital and provided medical service in orthopedics around the Sung-nam and Kyunggi areas. Professor Park Seung-Rim was the first director of the orthopedics department, Sung-nam inha hospital. By 2003, Sung-nam Inha hospital was integrated with Inha university hospital. Inha medical school, was established in 1996, and Professor Oh In-Suk, now is a director of the Korean Orthopedic Association, was one of the most critical staffs, as a director of the orthopedics department at the beginning. The school played substantial role in the field of education and medical treatments of orthopedics around the Incheon areas ever since it was established. Afterwards the second and third director, Moon Kyung-Ho and Kim Myung-Ku took over professor Oh In-Suk's position. Currently Kim Ryuh-seop is the director of the department and the hospital plays critical role around the metropolitan areas including Incheon & Kyunggi by performing average 2000 orthopedic surgical operations annually.
Knee joint arthroscopy & surgery, Hip joint arthroplasty & surgery, spine surgery, hand & arm surgery, shoulder joint arthroscopy & surgery, foot & ankle surgery are the sub-fields of orthopedics. Currently the school is available to deal with various disorders in such sub-fields, since all the staffs are professionally specialized, and the faculties form the leading groups in the research and medical educations with the background of studying and working in the world class facilities.
Especially, the staffs published numerous creditable papers in the world-class prominent journals in the field of clinical studies and received strong positive reponses from other researchers all around the world. Futhermore they published textbooks of orthopedics for domestic students in Korea.
Additionally, the staffs received funding from other internal and external institutions and now are making great contributions with the basic research programs in the cutting edge fields, such as biomechanics and molecular biology.
Not only in medical aspect, members of orthopedics of Inha university are also trained in community knowledge to participate as an important central role in the society.
