With our clinic magazine Hellersen Insight, we would like to give you exciting insights into everyday clinical life at our specialist clinic for orthopaedics, trauma surgery and sports medicine in Lüdenscheid. We report on a wide range of topics from the medical specialties of the sports clinic, interesting patient and employee stories, portraits of our specialists as well as political topics from the healthcare sector and the Märkisch district.
The new issue of Hellersen Insight focuses on the future of medicine. Topics such as artificial intelligence, robot-assisted surgery and innovative spinal medicine show how technological advances are shaping patient care at the Hellersen Sports Clinic.
In an interview, CEO Dirk Burghaus talks about the opportunities that artificial intelligence offers for everyday clinical practice and how digital systems can make treatments even more targeted and efficient. In addition, Dr. Stefan Schmidl, Chief Physician at the Center for Artificial Joint Replacement, explains how robot-assisted endoprosthetics combines precision and progress in surgical care.
Another focus of the magazine is the political visits to the Hellersen Sports Clinic. Representatives from state and local politics were informed on site about the medical development, international orientation and innovative strength of the specialist clinic. Discussions focused on future topics such as the Rhine-Ruhr region's bid to host the Olympics, the internationalization of the specialist clinic and securing skilled workers in the healthcare sector.
The special section of this issue is dedicated to the German Spine and Scoliosis Center at the Hellersen Sports Clinic. Here, the specialist areas of conservative orthopaedics, spinal surgery and special spinal surgery work closely together and pool their expertise to offer patients modern, holistic care at the highest medical level. Senior physician Zeyad Langhi, who, in addition to his work at the Hellersen Sports Clinic, also operates on a voluntary basis in his home country of Libya and provides medical assistance to people who would otherwise have no access to modern care, will be introduced. The international significance of the expertise from the Hellersen Sports Clinic is also evident beyond national borders at the specialist congress in China, where head physician Dr. Oliver Meier and senior physician Liang Zhou presented their experience in scoliosis treatment and impressively illustrated how much the expertise of the specialist clinic is valued worldwide.
There is also a very special reason to celebrate: our clinic magazine Hellersen Insight was awarded second place in the clinic magazine category at the KU Awards 2025, once again winning a national award.
At the KU Awards 2025, the Hellersen Sports Clinic was awarded second place in the "Clinic Magazine" category. The clinic magazine Hellersen Insight impressed with its authentic and high-quality editorial design, which is now supplemented by a digital, interactive and cross-media version.
The magazine also took second place in the "Best Clinic Magazine" category in 2022. The renewed award shows that Hellersen Insight has established itself sustainably in the healthcare communication landscape with its high-quality content and clear concept.
Since 2015, the trade magazine KU Gesundheitsmanagement has been honoring the most innovative projects and most successful campaigns in healthcare and hospital marketing with the KU Awards. The renowned KU expert jury presented the awards in the categories of (online) hospital marketing, employer marketing, hospital magazine and a special award for outstanding achievements.
