MD, PhD Tomasz owczarski

Graduated from Karol Marcinkowski Pozań University of Medical Sciences . Specialist in orthopaedics and traumatology of the locomotor system. Specialised in sports injuries and degenerative joint disease treatment and sees his patients in Poznań - Orthopaedist Poznań.

Tomasz Owczarski, PhD operations performed:

• arthroscopy of the ankle and knee joints,
• ligament reconstructions of the ankle and knee joints,
• Knee joint alloplasty,
• total knee endoprosthesis,
• Unicompartmental knee endoprosthesis,
• patellofemoral joint endoprosthesis,
• Hip joint alloplasty,
• cemented and uncemented prosthesis,
• Birmingham Hip Resurfacing (BHR) of a hip joint,
• ankle joint endoprosthesis.

Tomasz Owczarski has been caring for professional athletes for many years. Between 1999 and 2009 he was the doctor of the Polish national hockey team and since 2002 he has been the main advisor of the European Field Hockey Federation (EHF). He also worked with the Polish Olympic Committee, and in 2000 he was the first doctor of the Polish national hockey team at the Sydney Olympics. He operated on many Polish athletes, including the best marathon runner Henryk Szost, and for years he also worked with two-time world pole vault vice-champion Monika Pyrek. Since March 2016, he has been the head of the medical staff of the Polish national men's handball team. He was the team doctor at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, where the Polish handball team advanced to the semi-finals for the second time in history, finishing fourth.

Privately, Tomasz Owczarski prefers active leisure and long, often extreme, runs. Among other things, he competed in a marathon in Nepal at the foot of Mount Everest, Patagonia, Bhutan or a winter marathon across the frozen Lake Baikal.

Poznan University of Medical Sciences