Dr. Richard Knebel

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Specialty: Orthopedics

Hospital: Burjeel Hospital, Dubai

Dr. Richard Knebel is the Consultant Orthopedic Surgeon at Burjeel Hospital, Dubai Specialized in Knee & Hip Replacement.

Dr. Richard Knebel is from the Netherlands and has completed his basic medical education from Maastricht after that he moved to Sweden and started his Orthopedic career.

In the beginning of his career Dr. Richard Knebel worked with mainly younger people till 1994 who were working in sports and athletics. Later on Dr. Knebel noticed that the elderly people were suffering more and more because of osteoarthritis and this suffering had pain on their quality of life. This attracted Dr. Richard Knebel’s keen towards hip osteoarthritis and knee osteoarthritis.

Dr. Richard Knebel has been working in the United Kingdom since 2004 on hip and knee replacement surgeries also he worked a little bit on hip fractures.

It brings joy to Dr. Richard Knebel to see people who were hardly able to walk are in a much better condition after the operation as he believes that all though osteoarthritis is common but it should not mean one should end their life with osteoarthritis.

Work Experience:

25+ Years

Speciality Interests:

  • Hip replacement surgery
  • Knee replacement surgery
  • Hip and knee osteoarthritis
  • Qualification:

  • MD
  • MBBS, Maastricht University
  • Professional Memberships:

    Guest speaker in scientific conferences, CDE’s and worldwide conferences to talk about knee osteoarthritis.

    Area’s of Clinical Interest:

  • Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) Reconstruction
  • Hip Resurfacing Surgery
  • Knee Arthroscopy
  • Total Hip Replacement B/L, U/L, Knee Replacement B/L, U/L, etc.