Orthopaedics is a specific area of medicine dedicated to the treatment of musculoskeletal disorders. There are several types of specialties within orthopaedics, with physicians specialising in a particular part of the body, e.g. foot, knee, hip, spine, shoulder and hand specialists<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Traumatology is the orthopaedics branch that treats cases involving some type of trauma. Usually, these injuries are related to arm and leg fractures, sprains and torn ligaments<\/strong>. As they are very specific and serious injuries, they require the assessment of a doctor with a great deal of experience in these injuries.<\/p>\n Often the orthopaedic surgeon works together with physical and rehabilitation medicine<\/a>\u00a0and sports medicine<\/a>\u00a0specialists so that recovery is structured, thus mitigating the risk of new injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This medical specialty is focused on the diagnosis and treatment of musculoskeletal conditions and trauma. Orthopaedics Orthopaedics is a specific area of medicine dedicated to the treatment of musculoskeletal disorders. There are several types of specialties within orthopaedics, with physicians specialising in a particular part of the body, e.g. foot, knee, hip, spine, shoulder and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1878,"parent":1998,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2116","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comcorpus.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comcorpus.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comcorpus.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comcorpus.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comcorpus.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2116"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/comcorpus.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2124,"href":"https:\/\/comcorpus.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2116\/revisions\/2124"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comcorpus.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comcorpus.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comcorpus.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Traumatology<\/h4>\n