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These services are not reimburstable by Kela.

Education and work history

Licentiate of Medicine, University of Helsinki, 11 Jan. 1993

Specialist in Orthopaedics and Traumatology, University of Helsinki, 16 Dec. 2002

Specialist areas: Hip and knee replacement surgery, sports injuries, injuries in the lower extremities

Specialist in Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Orton Oy, 6 Jan. 2003 onwards

Special interests

Primary hip and knee joint replacement surgery, hip and knee revision surgery, hip and knee joint replacement surgery in special cases such as patients with chondrodystrophy, CDH, haemophilia, AVN, sequelae of fractures etc. in patients with secondary osteoarthritis, lower limb sports injury surgery.

Memberships

Finnish Orthopaedic Association, Finnish Athletics Federation’s medical division in 1994–2011, Finnish Olympic Committee’s sports medicine division in 2005–2012, physician for Finland’s male national volleyball team since 2015-2017.

Kela-korvaus

These services are reimbursed by Kela.

Education

Physiotherapist, 1976

Physiotherapist, specialised, 1990

Manual lymph drainage therapy training

Acupuncture training

Kela compensation

These services are reimbursed by Kela.

More information

I work as an independent practitioner at Orton.

Prices

30 min    140 €

Kela compensation

These services are reimbursed by Kela.

Additional qualifications

• Hypnosis
• Body psychotherapy
• Pain psychology

Professional interests

Pain conditions and related client work, as well as pain research, have been my professional interests since the beginning of my career nearly 30 years ago. In my work as a pain psychologist, I am interested in combining recent scientific research with client work. This way, it is possible to create thinking and action models that serve treatment and rehabilitation goals. Before interventions, I aim to gather the most comprehensive and holistic understanding of the client’s nature, experiences, and symptoms.

My clients also include individuals who experience psychological symptoms, stress, anxiety, and depression, ranging from children to the elderly.

In integrative psychotherapy, the starting point is the client’s individual therapeutic needs and goals, which psychotherapy aims to address. The methods used are selected, and therapy is tailored from the start according to the client’s needs and preferences. Integrative psychotherapy emphasizes the common factors across various types of psychotherapy that most influence therapy outcomes, such as a good therapeutic relationship and the expectation of a positive outcome, according to research.

The fundamental task of psychotherapy is to increase the client’s self-awareness and strengthen their sense of agency, leading to an expansion of self-understanding and an increase in the sense of control, as well as better regulation of their own emotions and actions.

Therapeutic work can, if necessary, include hypnosis or body-psychotherapeutic methods if it serves the client’s needs and the therapy process.

Psychotherapy can be reimbursed by Kela with a B-medical statement from a psychiatrist.

Prices

Prices for self-paying clients:
Pain psychologist consultation 45 min 170 €
Hypnosis 45 min 170 €
Psychotherapy 45 min 100 €

Kela reimbursement

These services are not reimbursable by Kela except psychotherapy provided with Kela’s payment commitment.

Education

Physiotherapist

Acupuncture training

Kela compensation

These services are not reimbursable by Kela.