Dr. Katja Regenspurger

Dr. Katja Regenspurger is a practising specialist for physical and rehabilitative medicine in a pain therapy practice at the jemedo medical and therapy centre in Jena (www.schmerz.jemedo.de). Her clinical focus is on special pain therapy for acute and chronic diseases, especially of the musculoskeletal system. In addition, she has dedicated herself to musician's medicine and musician's health for many years, both in the form of a special musician's medical consultation and in student teaching. In 2023 she received the lectureship for musician health at the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar. 

Qualifications:

• Specialist in physical and rehabilitative medicine
• Special pain therapy
• Manual medicine
• Sports medicine
• Mind-Body Medicine (University of Duisburg-Essen) 2023 with "MB-Health" teaching qualification
• Course leader "Healthy under stress according to Prof. Esch
• Basic psychosomatic care
• Certificate in Medical Training Therapy
• Certificate in radiation protection

Career:

• 1991-1998 Study of human medicine at Friedrich Schiller University, Jena
• 2002 doctorate 
• 2002-2006: research assistant, Collaborative Research Centre 482 "Event Weimar-Jena. Culture around 1800", Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Subproject E3: Medicine around 1800
• 2006-2007: Department of Orthopaedics, Moritz Clinic Bad Klosterlausnitz
• 2007-2009: Orthopaedic Clinic of the FSU Jena at the Waldkrankenhaus "Rudolf Elle" in Eisenberg 
• 2009-2016: Centre for Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, Sophien- und Hufeland-Klinikum Weimar
• 2016-2020: Head of Department of Conservative Orthopaedics and Physical Medicine, Department of Orthopaedics, Trauma and Reconstructive Surgery, University Hospital Halle (Saale)
• since 2020 to date: Physician in the medical and therapy centre jemedo, practice for pain medicine Jena
• since 2/2020 to date: Research and teaching assistant, University Hospital Halle (Saale)

Teaching activities to date:

• Musician's medicine and music physiology, practice, musician's health at the HfM Weimar and the Institute for Music, Speech and Media Science, Martin Luther University Halle/Wittenberg,
• teaching in the subjects: musculoskeletal medicine, rehabilitation and physical medicine, manual medicine, sports medicine, pain therapy, University Hospital Halle/Saale

musical activities:

• Music school education saxophone, oboe, piano
• Saxophonist and management of the JenaBigBand (jenabigband.de)