Surgeon Ritauras Rakauskas

Orthopedist – traumatologist
Specialises in conservative and minimally invasive arthroscopic treatment of children and adolescents sports injuries
Performs meniscal repair/resection, arthroscopic ACL and other knee ligaments reconstruction; patellar instability treatment (MPFL reconstruction); modern arthroscopic treatment of chondral lesions; shoulder instability arhroscopic repair.
Performs 300 surgeries a year

Education

2015 – Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, medical master’s degree and doctor’s qualification
2015 – Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, professional qualification of a medical doctor
2020 – Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Orthopedic traumatology residency. Professional qualification of an orthopedic traumatologist

Work experience and internships

2015-2020 – Resident of Kaunas Clinic, Orthopedic Traumatology Clinic, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences
2017-2019 – Kaišiadorių hospital, Medical doctor
2019-2020 – Druskininkai Hospital, Medical doctor
2020-now – Druskininkai Hospital, Orthopedic traumatologist
2020-now – Kaunas Clinics of the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Pediatric Surgery Clinic, Department of Pediatric Orthopedic Traumatology, orthopedic traumatologist
2020-now – Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Clinic of Orthopedic Traumatology, Researcher – Guest lecturer, Assistant.
2023-now – Nordclinic, Orthopaedic surgeon

Memberships

Lithuanian Association of Pediatric Orthopedic Traumatologists (LVOTD)
Lithuanian Association of Orthopedic Traumatologists (LTOD)
Lithuanian Arthroscopy and Sports Traumatology Association (LASTA)

Academic work and scientific presentations

Efficiency of treatment methods for bone cysts of the humerus in pediatric patients at Kauno klinikos
14th Congress of the Lithuanian Society of Orthopedic Traumatologists “Patient-saving surgery and regenerative medicine in orthopedics and traumatology” – Review of methods of treatment of children’s bone cysts and their application in the Children’s Orthopedic Traumatology Department of LSMUL KK
2020 – International Conference of Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation in Georgia. “ACL Reconstruction in Adolescent Athletes. Hamstring VS Quadriceps Tendon Autografts”.
2022 – International Nordic Orthopaedic Federation Congress (NOF) 2022. “ACL Reconstruction in Adolescent Athletes. Hamstring VS Quadriceps Tendon Autografts. Early Outcomes of a Prospective Study”.

Courses, internships:

2016 – 13th Lithuanian Society of Orthopedic Traumatologists Congress “Infection in Orthopedics”, Palanga, Lithuania
2016 – Scientific-practical conference of the Lithuanian Society of Pediatric Orthopedic Traumatologists “Pediatric spine surgery in Lithuania”, Vilnius, Lithuania
2017 – Scientific-practical conference of the Scientific Society of Orthopedic Traumatologists of the Kaunas Region “Diagnosis and treatment tactics of congenital and acquired leg axis deformities”, Raseiniai, Lithuania
2018 – 37th European Paediatric Orthopaedic Society Meeting, Oslo, Norway
2018 – 14th Lithuanian Society of Orthopedic Traumatologists Congress “Patient-saving surgery and regenerative medicine in orthopedics and traumatology”, Vilnius, Lithuania
2018 – V International Conference of Sports Medicine, Tbilisi, Sakartvel
2018 – Practical cadaver courses: First Course With Anatomical Specimens “Surgical Approaches to Lower Limb”, Barcelona, Spain
2018 – Lithuanian Arthroscopy and Sports Traumatology Association scientific-practical conference “Current Concepts: Arthroscopy”, Klaipėda, Lithuania
2018 – Scientific-practical conference of the Lithuanian Society of Pediatric Orthopedic Traumatologists “Fractures of the diaphysis and distal end of the humerus. Clinical cases”, Vilnius, Lithuania
2019 – 38th European Pediatric Orthopedic Society Meeting, Tel Aviv, Israel
2019 – First Baltic Pediatric Orthopedic Meeting “Pediatric foot and ankle: orthopedic and trauma”, Palanga, Lithuania
2021 – Lithuanian Arthroscopy and Sports Traumatology Association scientific-practical conference “Current Concepts: Shoulder, knee rthroscopy”, Klaipėda, Lithuania
2022 – Practical cadaveric courses: Cadaveric Course “Save the Meniscus”, Athens, Greece
2022 – Internship: ORTHOFIX Reconstructive Surgery Observership. Pretoria, Republic of South Africa
2022 – Practical cadaveric courses: Cadaveric Course “International Knee and Shoulder Courses”, Munich, Germany

Surgeon Ritauras Rakauskas

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