Pferdepraxis Dr. Claudia Siedler

About Pferdepraxis Dr. Claudia Siedler

With her equine practice in Siegenfeld near Heiligenkreuz, Dr. Claudia Siedler treats horses only. The focus is on sport horses, above all lameness, pre-purchase examinations and shockwave therapy, on which the vet also wrote her doctorate.

Services

The website lists the whole range of equine medicine and highlights some areas as specialities:

• Orthopaedics: lameness examination and therapy, complemented by video gait analysis, in which the movement is recorded and evaluated.
• Pre-purchase examinations: examination and advice before buying a horse. According to the website, this has become a particular focus through the medical and riding-related care of sport horses.
• Dentistry: routine treatments, dental X-rays, tooth extractions and diastema widening, i.e. widening gaps between the teeth in which food gets stuck. The practice treats more complicated cases together with the dental clinic of the Vetmeduni Wien.
• Shockwave therapy: treatment with high-energy sound waves, the vet's speciality.
• Other areas: internal medicine, surgery, gynaecology, diagnostic imaging, laboratory, nutritional advice, preventive health care and rehabilitation programmes. For scintigraphy, a nuclear medicine imaging procedure, the website refers you to the Vetmeduni Wien.

Equipment

According to the website, most of the equipment is mobile: digital X-ray, ultrasound and digital video bronchoscopy for examining the airways. There are also electric dental grinders, a diastema burr, a dental endoscope, a shockwave device and a red light therapy device.

Important for horse owners

Only horses that are not registered as slaughter horses are treated. When the practice dispenses medicines, it points out any possible doping relevance, which matters above all for competition horses. For billing it provides the Austrian Chamber of Veterinarians' announcement on the hourly rate of 30 November 2020 as a download, as well as a registration form on data protection.

The vet

Dr. Siedler graduated from the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna in 2000, obtained her doctorate in 2002 and founded the practice in the same year. According to the website, she has been a university assistant at the orthopaedics clinic of the Vetmeduni since 2002. She has been a specialist vet for horses since 2008 and for physiotherapy and rehabilitation medicine since 2023. She is also a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation and approved as an FEI vet for competitions of the world equestrian federation. Since 2024 she has been a sworn and court-certified expert in veterinary medicine for horses and for dressage, show jumping and eventing.

Appointments

Appointments are by arrangement on 0664 286 41 76. The website does not mention fixed surgery hours or an emergency service.

Automatically translated from German.

Compiled by our editorial team.