private practice

• specialized training in EMG (DGKN certificate) and ultrasound (DEGUM seminar leader level 3 for nerve / muscle sonography, trainer level 2 for cerebrovascular ultrasound and level 1 for sonography of the musculoskeletal system).
• member of NervClub.
• PhD dissertation 2014 at Semmelweis University Budapest (H). Translated title: “High-resolution sonography of the peripheral nerves: normal values in healthy individuals and the role of sonography in rare diseases of the peripheral nerves”.

Languages

german, english, french, hungarian, romanian

Career

• born 1960
• medical state examination: 1989
• Training as a specialist in neurology at the Brüderkrankenhaus Koblenz.
• senior physician at the Neurological Rehabilitation Clinic Vallendar near Koblenz from 1996 (including 9 months as acting medical director)
• senior physician in neurology at the St. Elisabeth Stift Hospital in Damme/Lower Saxony from 1998.
• senior physician in neurology at the district hospital in Freiberg/Saxony from 2000.
• Head physician in neurology at Freiberg District Hospital (academic teaching hospital of Dresden University Hospital) Feb 2002- 2016.

Areas of specialization

My field of work includes the diagnosis and treatment of the following diseases:

• lesions of peripheral nerves
• thoracic outlet syndrome
• vascular diagnostics of the neck vessels and intracranial vessels
• dementia assessment
• gait disorders
• headaches
• dizziness
• Parkinson’s disease
• multiple sclerosis
• clarification of unclear neurological complaints

Further activities

• expert in traffic medicine
• reviewer of nerve sonography for international journals

Publications (selected):

• Arányi Z, Csillik A, Dévay K, Rosero M, Barsi P, Böhm J, Schelle T. Ultrasonographic identification of nerve pathology in neuralgic amyotrophy: Enlargement, constriction, fascicular entwinement, and torsion. Muscle Nerve. 2015 Oct;52(4):503-11
• Böhm J, Schelle T (2015). Sonographische Diagnostik bei peripheren Nervenerkrankungen der oberen Extremität. Obere Extremität · 10:156–161DOI 10.1007/s11678-015-0329-x Online publiziert: 25. August 2015
• Böhm J (2015) . Atypisches Karpaltunnelsyndrom: Sonografie zum Nachweis einer isolierten Kompression des trifiden N. medianus. KlinNeurophysiol , DOI: 10.1055/s-0035-1552697
• Böhm J, Scheidl E, Bereczki D, Schelle T, Arányi Z. (2014) High resolution ultrasonography of peripheral nerves: measurements on 14 nerve segments in 56 healthy subjects and reliability assessments. Ultraschall in der Medizin/European Journal of Ultrasound, 35: 459-467. IF: 4,116
• Böhm J, Schelle T. (2013) Stellenwert der hochauflösenden Sonografie bei der Diagnostik peripherer Nervenerkrankungen. Aktuelle Neurologie, 40: 258-268. IF: 0,320
• Böhm J, Scheidl E, Schelle T. (2013) Aktueller Stellenwert der HRUS bei der Diagnostik von Polyneuropathien. NeuroTransmitter, 24:34-39.
• Böhm J, Visser LH, Lehmann TN. ( 2011) High-resolution sonography of posttraumatic neuroma of the superficial radial nerve. Central European Neurosurgery, 72:158-160. IF: 0,838
• Scheidl E, Böhm J, Simó M, Bereznai B, Bereczki D, Arányi Z. (2014) Different patterns of nerve enlargement in polyneuropathy subtypes as detected by ultrasonography. Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, 40(6):1138-45. IF: 2,455
• Leypoldt F, Friese MA, Böhm J, Bäumer T. (2011) Multiple enlarged nerves on neurosonography: an unusual paraneoplastic case. Muscle and Nerve, 43:756-758. IF: 2,367
• Hettler A, Böhm J, Pretzsch M, von Salis-Sogilo G. (2006) Piriformissyndrom infolge einer extragenitalen Endometriose. Nervenarzt,77:474-477. IF: 0,711
• Böhm J. (2003) Paraspastik, Polyneuropathie und „tumoröse Veränderungen” der Achillessehnen: Polyneuropathie als Begleitsymptom bei einer Systemerkrankung? Aktuelle Neurologie, 30:407-409. IF: 0.269

Book contributions

• Penkert G, Böhm J, Schelle T. Focal Peripheral Neuropathies. Imaging, Neurological, and Neurosurgical Approaches. Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 2014. ISBN 978-3-642- 54779-9