Dr. David Grischkan

Dr. David Grischkan, a hernia doctor and the medical director of the Hernia Center of Ohio, has performed over 23,000 hernia surgeries for bodybuilders, doctors, and others just like you.

People come from around the world because of his reputation for making sure patients enjoy rapid recoveries and his success with a non-mesh hernia repair technique. In fact, some turn to Dr. Grischkan because of chronic pain and complications they’ve endured from surgeries with mesh. Learn about patients and what they say.

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Doctors Prefer Dr. Grischkan for Their Surgeries

Top-Ranked Bodybuilders Get Right Back to the Gym

Patients Come from Ohio and Around the World

The Expertise You Deserve

A hernia expert with over 20,000 hernia repairs
NON-MESH repair (take the surgical tour)
A surgeon who will do your surgery — not a trainee or student
A surgeon who has lectured worldwide and published research
A surgeon who has operated on hundreds of doctors

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Thanking for Treatment

We appreciate the following video from the family of David, a courageous young hernia repair patient.

Hernia Specialist With A Reputation For Success Without Mesh

If you have an inguinal hernia, recurrent inguinal hernia, femoral hernia, incisional hernia, sports hernia, suffer from mesh complications or have chronic pain following a hernia repair, you need to contact the Hernia Center of Ohio. Dr. Grischkan, the medical director, has achieved remarkable success even in cases where other surgeons were unwilling or unable to undertake a complex hernia repair. Thousands of patients from all over the United States as well as Europe, the Middle East, Mexico and South America have benefitted from the expertise of Dr. Grischkan’s updated Canadian Shouldice repair (non-mesh) and for select cases, the Modified Shouldice repair (special mesh). Advantages in most cases include:

Sedation anesthesia-not general anesthesia
20-30 minute surgical procedure
Surgical repair performed only by Dr. Grischkan-not trainees
Resume all activities three days following the procedure
Safest method compared to other more invasive techniques