I have been treating people with pain for over 25 years now. After studying medicine in Munich and Melbourne, my doctoral thesis focussed on specific forms of pain. During my specialist training at the Großhadern Clinic and my later work as a senior consultant in neurosurgery in Regensburg, the subject of back pain increasingly became the focus of my interest. Today, I am one of the few specialists in Germany to hold both the specialist qualification in neurosurgery and the additional qualification in specialised pain therapy.

Over the years, scepticism towards the scalpel grew with increasing surgical experience. For too many patients, the desired reduction in pain and improvement in quality of life could not be achieved. Studying philosophy from 2007 to 2010 was also an attempt to find answers to my patients' questions outside of conventional medicine and to change my perspective.

The result of all these endeavours is the Munich Back Pain Model. It has formed the basis of my medical work ever since. Until October 2018 as co-founder and head of the back pain centre at the Algesiologikum. During this time, I also acquired the additional qualification in specialised pain therapy from the Bavarian Medical Association. Since April 2019, my team and I have been offering all pain patients a competent and friendly point of contact at the new Schmerzwerkstatt München centre.

As a border crosser between neurosurgical-operative and pain-therapeutic-linguistic medicine, I look forward to your visit.