Hip & knee specialist · Johannesburg
Specialist Hip and Knee Surgeon in Johannesburg
Thrive Ortho is the practice of Dr Jurek Pietrzak, a specialist orthopaedic surgeon focused on hip and knee care — from first assessment and non-surgical treatment to joint replacement and complex revision surgery.
Life Fourways Hospital
Mediclinic Sandton
Dr Jurek Pietrzak
MBBCh · FC Orth (SA) · MMed (Wits)
Areas of focus
How we can help you
Robotic-assisted joint replacement
Technology in the hands of a surgeon who researches it
Dr Pietrzak has authored internationally published research on robotic-assisted knee replacement, including studies comparing robotic-assisted and conventional techniques. Learn what the technology does, what it doesn't do, and whether it might be relevant to you.
Understand robotic surgery
Experience you can trust
A clinician, teacher and researcher
Academic medicine
Specialist in the Arthroplasty Unit at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, with a longstanding association with Wits University and extensive experience training orthopaedic surgeons.
International fellowship
Senior Clinical Fellowship in Hip and Knee Surgery at University College Hospital, London (2017), plus fellowship training in South Africa and Germany.
Published research
Author and co-author of numerous scientific publications and textbook chapters on hip and knee replacement, revision surgery and hip preservation.
Two locations
Consulting in Fourways and Sandton
Life Fourways Hospital
Suite A3b, Fourways HospitalCnr. Cedar Road & Cedar Ave. WestSandtonMediclinic Sandton
Suite 103, Medical CentreNorth Block, Mediclinic SandtonReady to talk about your hip or knee?
Our team will help you arrange a consultation at Fourways or Sandton.