Dr. Thomas Stoffels combines his passion for sports with medical expertise. His clinical training took place at the ENDO Clinic and AK St. Georg in Hamburg, and he served as a specialist and senior physician at Berlin Accident Hospital. As a long-standing team doctor for the German junior national field hockey team, he knows firsthand what it means to return to performance quickly and safely after an injury. This experience shapes his approach to treatment, whether it involves maintaining mobility, enhancing performance, or treating injuries in a targeted manner.

Dr. Stoffels specializes in reconstructive surgery of the knee and shoulder joints. He is a certified knee surgeon with the German Knee Society and the AGA. Within the German Knee Society, he helped develop the rehabilitation and prevention program STOP-X and served as co-chair of the Ligament Injuries Committee for several years.

His sporting passions include cycling, field hockey and snowboarding.

Additional designations

• Emergency medicine
• Sports medicine
• Specializist in trauma surgery
• AGA arthroscopic surgeon
• DKG Knee Surgeon

Additional qualifications

• Emergency sonography in the emergency room FAST
• Surgical sonography course
• AO course Trauma I
• Expertise in Radiation Protection Emergency Diagnostics
• Expertise in radiation protection intraoperative X-ray diagnostics
• Expertise in Radiation Protection Skeleton
• ATLS provider
• Team doctor for the German junior field field hockey team (07/2009 – 09/2012)

Memberships

• DGU – German Society for Trauma Surgery
• AGA – Society for Arthroscopy and Joint Surgery
• BDC – Professional Association of German Surgeons (Deputy Chairman of the Berlin Regional Association)
• DKG – German Knee Society (member of the Ligament Injuries Committee)
• DGSP – German Society for Sports Medicine and Prevention
• GOTS – Society for Orthopaedic-Traumatologic Sports Medicine

Publications

• Knie Journal 4/2024: Reconstruction of the anterior cruciate ligament using the remnant-preserving technique
• Knee Journal 4/2023: CME article: Knee joint infection after reconstruction of the anterior cruciate ligament. Prevention and therapy.
• Knie Journal 1/2021: CME article: Prevention of knee injuries. Diagnosis and intervention for modifiable risk factors
• Sports Orthopaedics and Traumatology Issue 4/ 2017: Prevention of knee injuries – is there evidence?
• Sportärztezeitung 4/2021: Anterior cruciate ligament: concomitant bony injuries and tibial sloper – relevance and impact on our clinical routine
• ESSKA Book: Injury and Health Risk Management in Sports, Section 10.6 Field field hockey
• https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=stoffels+t+