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Certified Traumatologist-Orthopaedist
Specializes in the treatment of orthopedic diseases, bone fractures and their consequences. He treats all consequences of trauma to the upper extremity, including elbow joint trauma, forearm bone fractures, carpal bone, clavicle, and finger fractures.
Additional information (further education, associations):
Member of the European Foot & Ankle Society (EFAS).
2014: Clinical Fellowship in Foot and Ankle Surgery (Mr Chandra Pasapula), The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn NHS Trust, United Kingdom.
2017: Foot and Ankle Institute (Dr Devos Bevernage Bernhard), Brussels, Belgium.
2017: ATOS Klinik (Dr med. Wolfram Wenz), Heidelberg, Germany.
2018: Fellowship in Foot and Ankle Surgery (Mr Yves Tourne MD, PhD), Centre Osteo Articulaire des Cedres and Clinique des Cedres in Echirolles, Grenoble, France.
2020: Orthopedic Foot & Ankle Unit (Dr Manuel Monteagudo de la Rosa), Hospital Universitario Quironsalud Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
2025: Observership in percutaneous surgeries and ankle arthroscopies (Dr Marc Elkaim), Clinique Saint Jean De Dieu, Paris, France.
Work experience and education:
1997–2003 – Riga Stradins University, Faculty of Medicine. Medical degree.
2004–2009 – Residency in Traumatology and Orthopaedics, Hospital of Traumatology and Orthopaedics, Riga. Certified Traumatologist-Orthopaedist.
2009–2025 – Traumatologist-Orthopaedist, foot and ankle surgery, Riga East University Hospital, Gailezers.
2009–present – Traumatologist-Orthopaedist, foot and ankle surgery, Jurmala Hospital.
Publications:
The Foot, June 2015, Volume 25, Issue 2, Pages 69–74. Neutral heel lateral push test: The first clinical examination of spring ligament integrity. Chandra Pasapula, Adam Devany, Ahmed Magan, A. Memarzadeh, V. Pasters, S. Shariff.
Foot and Ankle Surgery, Volume 22, Issue 2, Supplement 1, June 2016, Page 36. FI2016_OralPoster_10. The use of 3D model printing in planning distraction osteogenesis for brachymetatarsia. Konstantins Plotnikovs & Vitalijs Pasters.
EFAS Lyon 2021, Abstract. Extremity shortening and angulation for soft tissue defect reconstruction around the ankle. K. Plotnikovs, V. Pasters, J. Movchans, L. Solomin.
American Journal of Case Reports, 02 January 2022. A 52-year-old man with a Gustilo-Anderson IIIB open tibial shaft fracture with extensive soft-tissue defect requiring limb salvage with artificial deformity-creating technique. K. Plotnikovs, V. Pasters, J. Movchans, L. Solomin.
Strategies in Trauma and Limb Reconstruction. Plotnikovs K., Kamenska J., Movchans J., Pasters V., Solomin L., Plaudis H. Artificial deformity creation as a method for limb salvage and soft tissue defects: a report of 26 cases. 2023; 18(3): 133–139.
Journal of Clinical Medicine, 6 February 2024. Review of classification systems for adult acquired flatfoot deformity/progressive collapsing foot deformity and the novel development of the triple classification delinking instability/deformity/reactivity and foot type. Chandra Seker Pasapula, Makhib Rashid Choudkhuri, Eva R. Gil Monzo, Vivk Dhukaram, Sajid Shariff, Vitalijs Pasters, Douglas Richie, Tamas Kobezda, Georgios Solomou, Steven Cutts.
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