Tom Goom
Tom Goom is a physio who specialises in running injury and loves to run! He’s the creator of Running-physio.com a published researcher and international speaker, presenting his popular Running Repairs Course all over the world!”
Dr. Jean-Francois Esculier
Jean-Francois Esculier completed his Bachelor of Physiotherapy at the University of Ottawa and his Masters and PhD at Laval University, Canada. He is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of British Columbia, practices as a Physiotherapist at the Allan McGavin Sports Medicine Clinic in Vancouver, and lectures worldwide about running injuries through The Running Clinic.
Mick Hughes
Mick Hughes is a Physiotherapist & Exercise Physiologist with a very keen interest in ACL injury management and ACL injury prevention. He has previously worked within elite sporting teams such as the Collingwood Magpies Netball, Newcastle Jets U20s and NQ Cowboys U20s.
Robin Kerr
Robin Kerr is an Australian trained physiotherapist with 33 years of clinical experience. Her special interests lay in pelvic floor and lumbo-pelvic dysfunction. She is heavily trained in biomechanics and
gait lab running analysis, however over the last 20 years has moved towards a
focus on motion and the BPS model in the management of persistent pain. You can find more about Robin and her team here www.alchemyinmotion.com.au
gait lab running analysis, however over the last 20 years has moved towards a
focus on motion and the BPS model in the management of persistent pain. You can find more about Robin and her team here www.alchemyinmotion.com.au
Dr. Sandy Hilton
Sandy graduated from Pacific University (Oregon) in 1988 with a Master of Science in Physical Therapy and a Doctor of Physical Therapy degree from Des Moines University in December 2013. She has worked in multiple settings across the US with a neurologic and orthopedic emphasis including a focus in pelvic rehabilitation for pain and dysfunction. Sandy teaches and speaks internationally on the treatment of pelvic pain, and the application of pain science into clinical practice. Sandy’s clinical interest is chronic pain with a particular interest in complex pelvic pain disorders for men and women. Sandy is the co-host of Pain Science and Sensibility, a podcast on the application of research into the clinic.
Travis Pollen
Travis Pollen is a personal trainer and PhD student in Rehabilitation Sciences at Drexel University. He holds a master’s degree in Biomechanics and Movement Science from the University of Delaware. His research interests focus on core stability, movement screening, and injury risk assessment in athletes. In addition to his scholarly activities, he maintains a blog at www.FitnessPollenator.com.
Todd Hargrove
Todd Hargrove is a Certified Feldenkrais practitioner, Certified Rolfer, and author. Todd graduated from Hamilton College in 1990 with a B.A. in Economics, and from the University of Washington School of Law in 1995 with a J.D. While working as an attorney, Todd developed chronic neck and back pain, but eliminated it through through self-education, lifestyle change and exercise. He quit the law in 2005 to become a manual and movement therapist, in order to help others in the way he helped himself. Since 2008, he has written a blog at BetterMovement.org, which focuses on applying a modern understanding of pain science and neuroscience to movement-based therapies. In 2014, he published A Guide to Better Movement: The Science and Practice of Moving with More Skill and Less Pain.
Dr. Teddy Willsey
Dr. Teddy Willsey is a sports medicine focused physical therapist and private practice owner in Rockville, Maryland. Teddy has an interest in working with high level athletes and return to sport rehab. In addition to practicing PT, Teddy speaks and teaches publicly, writes and blogs regularly, and posts on social media daily. He can be found on Instagram at @strengthcoachtherapy or online at www.teddywillsey.com.
Ben Cormack
Ben Cormack owns and runs Cor-Kinetic. He is a musculoskeletal therapist with a clinical background in sports therapy, rehabilitation, pain science & exercise stretching back 15 years. He specialises in a movement & exercise based approach with a strong education component and patient centred focus.
Ben is a popular international presenter who has delivered conferences presentations and courses all over the world.
Ben is a popular international presenter who has delivered conferences presentations and courses all over the world.
Stephen King
Stephen King is the Director of MAT – Movement Assessment Technologies and creator of The MAT.
He has a unique background, being a dual-masters qualified Physiotherapist and Osteopath, while also having undertaken further studies as a Strength and Conditioning Coach and Personal Trainer.
Find out more at www.MATassessment.com
He has a unique background, being a dual-masters qualified Physiotherapist and Osteopath, while also having undertaken further studies as a Strength and Conditioning Coach and Personal Trainer.
Find out more at www.MATassessment.com
Steve Kamper
Associate Professor Steve Kamper is a research physiotherapist at the School of Public Health, University of Sydney. He is also co-lead of the ‘Centre for Pain, Health and Lifestyle’ (https://www.centrephl.org), a practice-research partnership exploring the interaction between pain and health risk factors such as overweight, physical inactivity, smoking, alcohol misuse and mental health. Other research interests include patient expectations and placebo effects, adolescent musculoskeletal pain, research methods.
Dr. Tom Walters
Tom Walters is an orthopedic physical therapist and undergraduate kinesiology professor in Santa Barbara, California. He is currently completing a Doctor of Science (ScD) in rehabilitation science at Texas Tech University where he is studying the effects of clinician language on physical performance in subjects with low back pain.
Dr. Bart Dingenen
Bart Dingenen (physical therapist, PhD) currently combines an academic postdoctoral position at University Hasselt (Belgium) with clinical work as a sport physical therapist in a private clinical practice (Motion to Balance, Genk). He is mainly interested in strategies to optimize prevention and rehabilitation of sports-related injuries of the lower extremity.
Christina Le
Christina Le is a physiotherapist (Glen Sather Sports Medicine Clinic) and PhD student (University of Alberta) from Edmonton, Canada. As a clinician, she primarily worked with athletes with anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries. This experience has motivated her to pursue research investigating quality of life in those with ACL injuries. Find her on Twitter as @yegphysio or online at www.yegphysiotherapy.com.
Mariana Wingood
Mariana Wingood is a full time clinician and part-time educator. She is an active member of the Vermont Falls Coalition, Gerontology Society of America, and Academy of Geriatrics. Mariana’s focus is on fall prevention and exercise perscription for older adults. She has presented at a state, national conferences, and international level.
Greg Dea
Greg Dea is a Performance Physical Therapist, working in the Australian and Chinese Institute of Sport systems, supporting world champion athletes in both countries. He is currently consulting out of Mornington, Victoria and teaching as a Functional Movement Systems lead instructor, delivering the Functional Movement Screen (FMS) and Selective Functional Movement Assessment (SFMA) Courses in Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan and China.
Dr. Sarah Haag
Sarah Haag is a physiotherapist and co-owner of Entropy Physiotherapy and Wellness in Chicago. At Entropy, Sarah specializes treating the spine and pelvis with a specialization in women’s and men’s health. She received her Doctorate of Physical Therapy and Masters of Science in Women’s Health from Rosalind Franklin University in 2008. In 2009 she was awarded a Board Certification as a specialist in women’s health (WCS). While not a researcher, she enjoys hanging out with researchers to shorten the gap between research and clinical application.
Dr. Jarod Hall
Dr. Jarod Hall, PT, DPT, OCS, CSCS is a physical therapist in Fort Worth, TX. His clinical focus is orthopedics and therapeutic neuroscience education. Jarod is a board certified Orthopedic Clinical Specialist and Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist. Jarod is also an adjunct instructor at the UNTHSC DPT program in the orthopedics, pain sciences, and manual therapy curricula. Dr. Hall presents continuing education at the local, state, national level and is an internationally recognized evidence based blogger.
Sandesh Rangnekar
Sandesh Rangnekar has a Master of Science in Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy from the Manchester metropolitan University, U.K.
His work includes rehabilitation and fitness training of Olympic level wrestlers, Tennis players, Kabaddi players, youth swimmers and elite soccer players. He is currently the senior Physiotherapist at Kinspire sports clinic in Mumbai.
His key areas of interest are strength and conditioning, return to participation and performance training. His vision is to bridge the gap between rehabilitation and performance based training in sport.
His work includes rehabilitation and fitness training of Olympic level wrestlers, Tennis players, Kabaddi players, youth swimmers and elite soccer players. He is currently the senior Physiotherapist at Kinspire sports clinic in Mumbai.
His key areas of interest are strength and conditioning, return to participation and performance training. His vision is to bridge the gap between rehabilitation and performance based training in sport.
Dr. Bronwyn Thompson
Bronwyn Lennox Thompson initially trained as an occupational therapist, graduating from CIT in 1984. She later completed her MSc in Psychology in 1999 at Canterbury University, and in 2015 was awarded her PhD from the Department of Health Sciences at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
She has worked in pain management for most of her clinical career, with her primary focus on pain management at work. She has practiced in interdisciplinary pain management programmes, private practice, case management both for private organizations, and ACC, primary prevention and secondary prevention, and since 2002, teaching postgraduate papers in pain and pain management at Otago University.
Her main interest areas include pain and anxiety, motivation for self-management, resilience and daily coping choices.
The effect of her occupational therapy training has never fully left Bronwyn’s aims in pain management. Occupational therapy has always targeted function, or the ability to fulfill life roles despite limitations. In the same way, Bronwyn’s goals for pain management are to help people reduce the functional impact of pain and improve their engagement in living life to the full.
To find out more about Bronwyn visit www.healthskillz.co.nz
Dr. Carlo Wood
Carlo Wood MPT, PhD, APA Sports & MSK Physio, OCS, DNSET is an instructor for Neurodynamic Solutions and owner of a cash only clinic specializing in sports injuries (sportsandorthophysio.net). He is a manuscript reviewer for JOSPT, invited speaker to Orthopaedic conferences worldwide and also part of the US Olympic Committee’s Sports Medicine Volunteer program.
Anthony Teoli
Anthony Teoli is a physiotherapist clinician working in private practice in Laval, Quebec. He is also the founder of InfoPhysiotherapy, a website dedicated to facilitating evidence-based practice for physiotherapists. Anthony has conducted two previous studies examining gait and disease progression in individuals with knee osteoarthritis, and is currently collaborating on a study with researchers from McGill University.
Simon Kirkegaard
Simon is the founder and CEO of Smertevidenskab (pain science) which is a company that focuses on teaching contemporary pain science to healthcare professionals and treating people with chronic pain. He’s currently undertaking a Masters by Research degree under Professor Lorimer Moseley. Simon is part of the Body in Mind research group and is on the board of executive officers in The Critical Physiotherapy Network.
Shruti Nambiar
Shruti Nambiar has completed her Masters in Clinical Sports Physiotherapy from Curtin University, Australia. She currently works at a private practice in Mumbai, India. She has previously worked with the Women’s Football team (Perth Glory) and as a Head Physiotherapist for Ultimate Table Tennis League, India. She has recently published an article with other researchers from Curtin University on Characterization of pain among people with Hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies. Her areas of interest are tendinopathies, management of chronic back pain, shoulder pathologies, and promoting evidence based practice.
Timothy Rowland
Tim Rowland is a physiotherapist and strength and conditioning coach from Sydney, Australia. He has completed a Bachelor of Physiotherapy (First Class Honours) and a Master of High Performance Sport. Tim currently works as a physiotherapist in a multidisciplinary private practice called MTP Health, and as a strength and conditioning coach for semi-professional rugby teams. Tim is very passionate about bridging the gap between rehab and performance, and specialises in late stage rehabilitation and return to play testing.
