Dr. med. vet. Astrid Reitz

Dr. med. vet. Astrid Reitz (born in 1971) studied veterinary medicine at the Justus Liebig University, Giessen. During this time, she worked at the Clinic for Horses, Internal Medicine, at the Justus Liebig University, Giessen. During her studies, she attended many continuing education and further training programmes in the field of acupuncture. Subsequently, she successfully completed the acupuncture programme offered by the International Veterinary Acupuncture Society (IVAS) in Belgium, gaining certification as an IVAS Certified Acupuncturist.

Motivated by her desire to put her experiences with acupuncture to the test academically within the scope of a thesis, Astrid Reitz began her doctorate on the subject of “Comparing the therapeutic effects of laser acupuncture and medicinal therapy in the COB/RAO of the horse” at the Clinic for Horses at the Justus Liebig University Giessen. This work was supported by a scholarship from the Karl und Veronica Carstens Foundation. Since then, she has presented the results of her work at both national and international specialist congresses.

At the same time as studying for her doctorate, after she received her veterinary approbation she was initially employed as an assistant vet in an equine practice and then as a freelance vet in several equine clinics and practices, and was in charge of several tournaments (dressage, show jumping, racing, endurance riding). Since 2005, she has been a registered endurance riding vet of the VDD.
She attended the BackBone - Academy for Veterinary Chiropractic and Healing Arts where she qualified as an animal chiropractor. Dr. med. vet Astrid Reitz is also a certified member of the “International Veterinary Chiropractic Association” (IVCA), which sets the international standards for animal chiropractors.

Since 2006, she has managed her own practice for acupuncture and chiropractics in South Germany.