H. Boethig, MD

Qualifications

• Additional title: chiropractor
• Additional title: sports medicine
• Additional title: acupuncture (A and B diploma, FACM / Prof. Y.Q. Shun, China Beijing University )
• Additional title: physical therapy
• Additional title: tropical medicine (diploma)
• Additional title: psychosomatic medicine
• Certificate of specialist training (CCST) in emergency medical services

Education

• Human medicine studies at the University Rostock
• Approbation and diploma, Rostock 1986
• Education: Orthopaedic University Clinic Greifswald, Rheuma Clinic Bad Bramstedt, orthopaedic department of the General Hospital Barmbek, Hamburg
• Medical specialist, Hamburg 1993
• Practicing physician in Munich

Memberships

• Research Group Acupuncture (FACM)
• Bavarian Association of Physicians in the field of sports medicine

Research projects

• Examination and therapy of muscular dysbalances in professional swimmers
• Stability/mobility measurements as well as isocinetic evaluations by using an isokinetic dynamometer (Cybex) in patients with multidirectional shoulder instability, postoperatively following Neer plasty

Specialized in

• overall conservative orthopaedics
• pain therapy in accordance with Western and Far Eastern methods,
• syndromes of pain at the vertebral column, shoulder and knee disorders,
• diagnosis of muscle function and therapy,
• body, ear and skull acupuncture as well as the diagnosis of syndromes incl. therapy (TCM),
• functional disorders following TCM and diagnosis of the meridians,
• neural therapy

sports medicine

• treatment of recreational and professional athletes, sports accidents and other complaints in athletes: ski, volley ball, swimming, boxing (also kick boxing), ballet
• diagnosis of infants hip joints as well as checking other articulations and soft tissues via ultrasound
• sonographically guided injections
• developing exercise programs to mobilise and stabilise disordered joint areas, e.g. cervical vertebrae, lumbar spine, hip, knee joint
• headache and tinnitus therapy,
• manual examination of cervical vertebrae and skull bones,
• skull acupuncture for headache and neurological disorders, developed by the Japanese anaesthesiologist Yamamoto,
• facet-and periradicular infiltrations under X-ray control

Sporting activities

• Jogging, skating, skiing, surfing, mountain biking (marathon experienced: Hamburg and Engadin)
• Alpine skiing, snowboarding
• Martial arts - judo, kickboxing: brown belt WAKO)
• Medical care of sports teams WAKO Munich (trainer Bernhard Schwarz)
• Swimming
• Canoeing
• Volleyball