Dr Franz Birkholtz (Pretoria, South Africa)

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Hi all,

For those of you who have emailed me: apologies. Work and travel seems to be taking all my time. Hence the slow (no?) responses via email. Of course my current existing patients get first choice for my attention. Not really good for new business I guess. :-)

I have decided to also give you an alternative email address to contact us. Dr Marie-Marì Alberts is my Clinical Practice Manager and also assists me in the operating room with all my cases. We also see eachother daily, so she has a pretty direct line to me. Her email address is [email protected]

Meanwhile, I will try and continue my email sweep and hopefully respond to everyone’s emails in due course.

Best regards,

Franz

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Quote from: Franz on June 17, 2018, 08:35:18 PMHi all,

For those of you who have emailed me: apologies. Work and travel seems to be taking all my time. Hence the slow (no?) responses via email. Of course my current existing patients get first choice for my attention. Not really good for new business I guess. :-)

I have decided to also give you an alternative email address to contact us. Dr Marie-Marì Alberts is my Clinical Practice Manager and also assists me in the operating room with all my cases. We also see eachother daily, so she has a pretty direct line to me. Her email address is [email protected]

Meanwhile, I will try and continue my email sweep and hopefully respond to everyone’s emails in due course.

Best regards,

Franz

Hi Dr. Birkholtz thanks for the update. I’ll email Dr. Alberts with my questions. I think the most common question is regarding when Stryde will be available in SA.

Hope everything is going well in your practice. Best wishes.

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Quote from: Zeo on June 18, 2018, 08:00:26 AMHi Dr. Birkholtz thanks for the update. I’ll email Dr. Alberts with my questions. I think the most common question is regarding when Stryde will be available in SA.

Hope everything is going well in your practice. Best wishes.

did you ever get to know when Stryde would be available?

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Dr. Birkholtz was the first surgeon in Africa to offer PRECICE, so it makes sense that he will be the first surgeon in Africa to offer STRYDE. Unfortunately, no date is available for STRYDE in Africa.

http://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/426/94291.html

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just wanted to say thanks to Leggs for continously polling different surgeons for STRYDE availability. good job

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Sure man, you're welcome.

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 complications include leg amputation , I done LL in India with Dr  Sarin you know the doctor everyone said is a butcher,  I seen some complications that were fixed but leg amputation ?? ! Shouldn't an orthopedic surgeon be able to prevent this?
Anyway doc I done tibia lengthening around 5.5 to 6cms depending on compression , do you think another 4 cms on femurs using internal nails is risky? Like what are the chances of having to have my legs amputated ?

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bumping this, anyone heard anything about Stryde availability?

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August 2019

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Quote from: cool on September 26, 2018, 02:49:58 PMAugust 2019

is that a joke or real? i hope you dont joke about such things, alot of people are depending on the information