

Dimitrios Tsoukas, M.D.


Dr. DimitriosTsoukas M.D. M.Sc, is a Sports Orthopaedic Surgeon from Athens Greece, Director Minimally Invasive Orthopaedic and Sportsmedicine Surgery Clinic Athens Medical Center .
He has also recently worked in Al Attar Clinic for Physical Medicine Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine Qatar Armed Forces Doha, Qatar. He was the Director of Orthopaedic Sports Medicine Clinic for major private hospitals in Greece for the last 16 years, Founder and Director of Minimally Invasive Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Center MIOSMED an ISAKOS approved teaching center and of the first Center in Greece for Orthopaedic and Sports Injuries prevention Orthopraxis. He was trained in Birmingham England (Consultant Dr. Niggel Tubbs), in University Hospital Pellenberg Leuven Belgium with Prof. Johan Bellemans and in UCL-St.Luc Brussels Belgium with Prof. Everard Munting. He has published many scientific papers, he is a regularly invited speaker at sports medicine congresses and instructor at arthroscopic cadaveric courses and he is involved in number of national and international scientific organizations (ESSKA, ISAKOS,ICRS). He is the doctor in charge for professional teams in football, basketball, volleyball, handball and has been elected as the doctor of the Greek All Star basketball game for 12 consecutive years. He has been awarded many times for his contribution to Greek athletics .His main interests are arthroscopic surgery ,knee and sports injuries surgery, cartilage injuries, ACI and stem cells, sports injuries prevention, pediatric and female sports injuries
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Work Experience
Director Orthopaedic Sports Medicine
Director and Founder of Minimally Invasive Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Surgery Center
Director Orthopaedic Sports
Director Orthopaedic Sports Medicine
Orthopaedic Surgeon Al Attar Rehabilitation
Education
Masters Degree in Health Services Management
PhD medecine
Certification of specialization: “Alternative Tourism”
MD
Publications
The role of cell therapies and hip arthroscopy in the management of osteonecrosis: an update.
Journal of hip preservation surgeryRead it hereEvidence of a Redox-Dependent Regulation of Immune Responses to Exercise-Induced Inflammation.
Oxidative medicine and cellular longevityRead it hereNo difference in osteoarthritis after surgical and non-surgical treatment of ACL-injured knees after 10 years.
Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKARead it hereThe microcycle of inflammation and performance changes after a basketball match.
Journal of sports sciencesRead it herePhysical activity is associated with bone geometry of premenarcheal girls in a dose-dependent manner.
Metabolism: clinical and experimentalRead it hereThiol-based antioxidant supplementation alters human skeletal muscle signaling and attenuates its inflammatory response and recovery after intense eccentric exercise.
The American journal of clinical nutritionRead it hereThe time-frame of acute resistance exercise effects on football skill performance: the impact of exercise intensity.
Journal of sports sciencesRead it hereOxidative stress and inflammatory responses following an acute bout of isokinetic exercise in obese women with knee osteoarthritis.
The KneeRead it herePlyometrics’ trainability in preadolescent soccer athletes.
Journal of strength and conditioning researchRead it hereValidity and reliability of the single-trial line drill test of anaerobic power in basketball players.
The Journal of sports medicine and physical fitnessRead it here
Associations
Member of the Board Sports Medicine Association of Greece
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Member Scientific and Educational Contributor at the European College of Sports and Exercise Medicine Physicians (ECOSEP)
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Member of Regulatory and Industry Liaison Committee International Cartilage Repair Society ICRS
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International Football Medicine
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European Group for Research into Elderly and Physical Activity
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