Date of Birth

5.5.1964 in Friesach / Carinthia

Promotion to M.D.

 in October 1990 in Vienna

 OCCUPATIONAL CAREER 

Vocational training to Specialist for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in the Wilhelminenhospital, Vienna

Pain care Foundation

Foundation of the PainCare Competencecenter for Pain therapy, complex spine-training therapy and sports medicine - Chief Physician of paincare
Foundation of Private Praxis

Diplomas of the General Medical Council for:

• Psychosomatic medicine
• Acupuncture
  
• Manual medicine
• Neuraltherapy
• Sports medicine
  
• Medical hypnosis
  
  

Numerous presentations on national and international congresses
Yearly Seminars for physicians for the official diplomas for paintherapy, Workshops in particular about complex active approach for chronic backpain-patients using high-tech-machines

Additional Activities

Participation in national and international studies regarding pain and spinal pain in particular

Interdisciplinary cooperation with the technical university with the goal to develop new measurement methods for coordination respectively new training therapy machines

My family, jazz and classic guitar / music, reading books about history and philosophy, zen-meditation, hiking, skiing in all variations, mountaineering, travelling 

Special medical fields

My major speciality is the conservative (=non-surgical) treatment of disorders in the movement apparatus, in particular of the spine. When I face a patient with chronic pain, of which he/she has been suffering mostly over years, in the center of my thoughts, words and actions you will find the biopsychosocial diseasemodel. This is one of the rare models that (scientifically proven) allows the therapist to approach to the whole human being and not just to the "back", "neck",...

Beside of pain out of the skeletalsystem I also treat other entities of pain - mainly headache and nervepain, named neuropathic pain.

But also the conservative sports medicin with its treatments (different to pain therapies) and training consultation after sport injuries / overuse belong to my prefered fields. Over the last 19 years I could successfully treat a large number of either sparetime sportsmen / women as well as highperformance or professional sportsmen / women.