Stoßwellentherapie in Österreich: Fachleute

Prof. Dr. med. Karsten Knobloch

Plastische/r und Rekonstruktive/r Chirurg/-in, Sportmediziner/-in

Hannover, Germany

Prof. Dr. med. Karsten Knobloch, FACS, is a specialist in general, plastic and aesthetic surgery, hand surgery, sports medicine and emergency medicine. He founded his private practice for sports medicine and hand surgery in Hannover in 2012, and also sees patients at SportPraxis Austria in Perchtoldsdorf near Vienna.He has been an adjunct professor of plastic surgery at Hannover Medical School since 2010. He is Vice President of ISMST, Secretary General and Past President of DIGEST, and a board member of DIGEMTT. He has written books on shockwave therapy in aesthetic medicine, hand surgery and neurology, and about 300 publications.

Priv.-Doz. Dr. Rainer Mittermayr

Orthopädische/r Chirurg/-in, Forscher/-in

Vienna, Austria

Priv.-Doz. Dr. Rainer Mittermayr, MBA, is a specialist in orthopaedics and traumatology and a team leader at the Vienna Meidling trauma centre, where he heads the shockwave outpatient clinic and the shoulder team. He also heads the shoulder group at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Experimental and Clinical Traumatology and lectures at MUV and SFU.He is Treasurer on the ISMST executive board, a past ISMST president (2012), and a scientific advisor on the executive board of the Austrian Society for Trauma Surgery.

Dr. Wolfgang Schaden

Orthopädische/r Chirurg/-in, Forscher/-in, Sportmediziner/-in

Vienna, Austria

Dr. Wolfgang Schaden is a specialist in trauma surgery and sports medicine and a pioneer of medical shockwave technology. At the AUVA Trauma Centre Meidling in Vienna he was senior surgeon and chief of the Department of Shockwave Therapy.He gave the first shockwave treatment for impaired bone healing in 1993, and the first for impaired wound healing in 2003. He is an Honorary Fellow of ISMST and was President of DIGEST in 2014–15. He has been an internationally certified shockwave trainer since 2000, and has written about 50 publications and book contributions. He speaks English and French.