Peter Guglia

OA Dr. med. Peter Guglia is a specialist in orthopaedics and orthopaedic surgery at JUVENIS Medical Center in central Vienna, and a senior physician at the Spine Centre of the Orthopaedic Hospital Speising, Austria's leading specialist hospital for orthopaedics. He has more than thirty years in medicine and works at JUVENIS on the non-surgical side of orthopaedics: diagnosis, pain treatment, and movement and posture assessment.

Education and qualifications Dr. Guglia received his doctorate in medicine in 1991. He first qualified as a specialist in general medicine (1994–1997), then completed his specialist diploma in orthopaedics and orthopaedic surgery (1997–2003). That dual background is unusual: he assesses a joint, back or posture problem in the context of a patient's overall health rather than in isolation.

Hospital career He trained as a resident at the University Department of Orthopaedics at AKH Vienna (2002–2003), then spent nine years as senior physician and deputy head at the SKA Zicksee rehabilitation clinic (2003–2012), where orthopaedic rehabilitation and conservative treatment are the core work. Since 2012 he has been a senior physician at the Spine Centre of the Orthopaedic Hospital Speising, and he has treated patients at JUVENIS since the same year.

Clinical focus

• Conservative orthopaedics of the musculoskeletal system — treating joint, back and posture problems without surgery
• Classical pain medicine
• Complementary pain therapy
• Movement and posture analysis
• Preventive examination
• Insurance medicine — independent medical assessments and reports

Why a non-surgical orthopaedist is worth travelling to Most orthopaedic patients who consider treatment abroad are weighing up an operation. Dr. Guglia's value is the step before that: an independent assessment, from a doctor who works inside Austria's leading orthopaedic hospital's spine centre, of whether surgery is actually necessary — and what can be achieved without it. For anyone who has been told they need a spine operation, a second opinion from a senior spine-centre physician who does not stand to perform the surgery is worth a great deal.

His approach In his own words, attractiveness is "a mixture of subjective appearances, currents of the time, and inner values."