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Chad Cook, PT, PhD, MBA, OCS, FAAOMPT is an Associate Professor and the Director of Outcomes Measurement at Duke University with a dual appointment in Department of Community and Family Medicine and the Department of Surgery. Dr. Cook received his Bachelors of Science in Physical Therapy at Maryville University in 1990, a Masters of Business Administration

in 1999, and a Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD) at Texas Tech University in 2003. He was certified as an orthopedic manual therapist in 2001, obtained fellowship status with AAOMPT in 2007, and is an APTA board certified orthopedic specialist (2002). Dr. Cook has published over 70 peer reviewed research papers in journals such as

He has two published textbooks , and

as well as book chapters and orthopedic monographs. He is currently the Editor in Chief of the

. Dr. Cook has presented multiple platform or poster presentations at national and international conferences, and has presented well over 100 educational courses within the United States. He has been a senior faculty and lecturer in peripheral and spine joint mobilization with Maitland Australian Physiotherapy Seminars for over eight years. Dr. Cook is a recent winner of the OPTP/JMMT literature review award in 2003 and 2005, and is the 2005 winner of the J Warren Perry Distinguished Authorship Award and a three time winner of Duke Universities Physical Therapy teaching award. Dr. Cook is actively involved in research concerning the effects of spine abnormalities, outcome assessment, joint replacement, and myelopathy.

Gray Cook MSPT, OCS, CSCS, a practicing physical therapist, has spent his entire career refining and developing functional evaluation and exercise techniques. He has taken the Functional Movement Screen (a system he developed) and his advanced assessment practices and combined them with reactive-based exercises that enhance motor learning for both rehabilitation and

performance. These two components were the pillars of the Reebok Core Training System which he developed in 2000. Gray’s ability to teach at many different professional levels is the result of his diverse background as both a sports medicine and conditioning expert.

Gray has lectured nationally and internationally in the fields of physical therapy, sports medicine, fitness and performance enhancement. He has served as a consultant to numerous universities and professional sports teams as well as Reebok University and the Titleist Performance Institute. His is author of the book titled Athletic Body in Balance which serves as a working example to trainers, coaches and athletes of the unique way Cook looks at assessment, movement, and exercise.

He is also the author of numerous text book chapters and articles related to these topics. He holds a faculty and staff position at Averett University. Cook has also produced a complete product line of educational material for rehabilitation and exercise professionals. These products and publications represent a paradigm shift in the way we will look movement science in the future. He lives in Southwest Virginia with his wife and daughters and enjoys a wide variety of sports and outdoor activities.

Wim Dankaerts is an Associate Professor in Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy at the Catholic University Leuven and the Association University Hasselt Limburg-PHL, Belgium. He also works part-time in private practice in Tienen (Belgium) as a Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist.

Wim graduated as a physiotherapist from the Catholic University Leuven, Belgium (1990) and received his Post Graduate Diploma in Manipulative Physiotherapy, from Curtin University, Perth, WA (1995). He completed his PhD at Curtin University (2005). Associate Professor Dr Peter O’Sullivan was his principal supervisor. During his doctoral studies Wim was a Lecturer at the prestigious Professional Masters in Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy program at Curtin University of Technology, Perth WA. His main interest of research is into mechanism-based classification for CLBP. He has published several papers and presented his research findings at many international conferences. He has also presented many clinical courses on the treatment of chronic low back pain internationally.

One of the senior academic team in the Clinical Trials Unit of the Arthritis Research Campaign National Primary Care Centre at Keele University, Nadine is a physiotherapist by background whose research activity is focused on musculoskeletal pain in primary care. Her research includes clinical trials and other intervention studies for low back pain, knee pain and shoulder pain, and

epidemiological studies of predictors of clinical outcome. Her portfolio of research includes studies of the effectiveness of interventions across the spectrum of physiotherapists, general practitioners, osteopaths and chiropractors. With more than £10 million research funding, she has contributed more than 50 full paper publications and supervises MSc/MMedSci and PhD students. She co-leads an annual short course ‘Practical introduction to running randomised clinical trials’ and contributes to MSc programmes at Keele University and elsewhere. She is a member of the HTA Clinical Evaluation and Trials Prioritisation Group, the West Midlands NIHR Research for Patient Benefit Committee and the Arthritis Research Campaign’s Clinical Studies Group on Musculoskeletal Pain. She is one of the international organising committee members for the International Forum for Research in Low Back Pain in Primary Care and secretary elect for the Society of Back Pain Research in the UK. Her post is funded by a Primary Care Career Scientist Award from the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) in the UK, to deliver a programme of research on common musculoskeletal problems.

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Alison Grimaldi is an APA accredited Sports Physiotherapist with a Masters degree in Sports Physiotherapy and a Doctorate in Philosophy (Physiotherapy). Her PhD was completed through the University of Queensland, Australia, and was aimed at improving the understanding of function and dysfunction of the lateral stability mechanism of the hip and pelvis. Alison is the Principal Physiotherapist at PhysioTec Physiotherapy

and Pilates in Brisbane. She has 18 years of clinical experience which over the last 10 years has focused primarily on management of hip, lumbopelvic and lower limb conditions. Alison is a visiting lecturer on Physiotherapy Masters programmes at the University of Queensland, has presented at many national and international conferences, and runs weekend educational programmes for other physiotherapists.

Steve Harridge is physiologist with a wide ranging (genes to muscle function) research interest in human skeletal muscle function and plasticity. He hast a particular interest in ageing muscle. He obtained his PhD from the University of Birmingham after which he spent three years at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and the Copenhagen Muscle Research, Denmark. He returned to the UK to take a Lectureship in the Department of

Geriatric Medicine at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, prior to spending 7 years in the Department of Physiology at University College London as a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer. He was appointed Professor of Human and Applied Physiology at King’s College London 2005. Steve is currently Convenor of the Human Physiology Special Interest Group of The Physiological Society and a member of the Scientific Committee of the European College of Sports Science. He is on the Editorial Board of Experimental Physiology and the Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports. In addition to his research he is Director of the MSc programme in Human and Applied Physiology at King’s and contributes to the post-graduate programmes in Advanced Physiotherapy.

Paula Ludewig is an Associate Professor in the Program in Physical Therapy, Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at the University of Minnesota. She received her PhD in Exercise Science from the University of Iowa and her Physical Therapy degree from the College of St. Scholastica. Her research and teaching interests are in the area of orthopaedic

biomechanics, with particular interest in mechanisms of injury and rehabilitation approaches for the shoulder. She has published numerous articles in the area of shoulder biomechanics and rehabilitation. Dr. Ludewig also serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy.

Dr Lorimer Moseley PhD, B.App.Sc.(Phty)(hons) is a scientist and a clinician. He completed his doctorate in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney, and post-doctoral fellowships at the University of Queensland & The University of Sydney. In 2004 he was appointed Nuffield Medical Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, where he was also

Senior Fellow in the GAMFI Collaboration. His work in understanding complex pain disorders, and in developing and testing novel strategies to manage them, have received world-wide recognition. He has written two books on pain, several book chapters and over 60 articles in top-flight journals. His work has been discussed in the popular media on every continent. In 2007, he was judged by the International Association for the Study of Pain to be the outstanding mid-career clinical scientist working in a pain-related field. He has recently returned to Sydney, where he is Senior Research Fellow at the Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute.

After receiving a PhD from the University of London, UK, in 1980, Professor Rothwell worked in London as a Royal Society University Research Fellow in the Neurology Department of the Institute of Psychiatry until 1988, before moving as a Senior scientist to the Medical Research Council Human Movement and Balance Unit at the Institute of Neurology. In that period he developed his current interests in the pathophysiology of

human movement disorders, with a particular interest in Parkinson’s disease, dystonia, myoclonus and stroke. This was also a time of great expansion in the new technique of transcranial magnetic stimulation, which he and others developed for the study of the human cortical motor system. He was Acting Director of the Unit in 1998 before being appointed to be Head of the Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders at the Institute of Neurology in London. He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 1994.

Professor Rothwell has extensive experience in as a journal editor, having served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Physiology and Clinical Neurophysiology. He was deputy editor of the journal Brain from 1997-2004 and is presently managing editor of Experimental Brain Research and a member of the editorial boards of Journal of Neurophysiology, Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair and Brain Stimulation. With Dr Richard Greenwood he organised the recent Cumberland Consensus Conference on Stroke Rehabilitation in London 2007.

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Dr. Sahrmann is Professor of Physical Therapy/ Neurology/ Cell Biology and Physiology at Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri. She received her bachelors degree in Physical Therapy, masters and doctorate degrees in Neurobiology from Washington University. She is a Catherine Worthingham Fellow of the American Physical Therapy Association and is a recipient of the Association's Marion

Williams Research Award, the Lucy Blair Service Award, and the Kendall Practice award, the John H.P. Maley Lecture and Mary McMillan Lecture awards. Dr. Sahrmann has also received Washington University's Distinguished Faculty Award, the School of Medicine’s Excellence in Clinical Practice Award and an honorary doctorate from the University of Indianapolis. She has served on the APTA Board of Directors.

In addition to her numerous national and international presentations, Dr. Sahrmann has been a keynote speaker at the World Confederation of Physical Therapy, and at the Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand national congresses.

Dr. Sahrmann's research interests are in development and validation of classification schemes for movement impairment syndromes as well as in exercise based interventions for these syndromes. Her book, Diagnosis and Treatment of Movement Impairment Syndromes describes the syndromes and methods of treatment. She maintains an active clinical practice specializing in patients with musculoskeletal pain syndromes.

Dr Alexander graduated as a Physiotherapist in 1987. She received an MSc in Advanced Neuro-Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy from University College London in 1994 when she became a member of the Manipulation Association of Chartered Physiotherapists. In December 2001 she was awarded a PhD from University College London after studying the reflex control of shoulder girdle

muscles. She now works as a clinician and researcher for Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust where she has a laboratory situated within the Department of Physiotherapy. Dr Alexander presents internationally and publishes work that explores the reflex and descending control of girdle and trunk muscles in both healthy individuals and people with various musculoskeletal and neurological problems.

Dr. Michael Callaghan qualified in 1983 at Salford School of Physiotherapy and is a Research Associate at Manchester University’s ARC epidemiology research group and a Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist in Emergency Medicine at Manchester Royal Infirmary. In the sports medicine context he has attended 4 Commonwealth Games and 4 Olympic

Games as a physiotherapist and was physiotherapist to Everton Football club, Wigan Rugby League Club and the Great Britain Cycling Team.

His general area of research has been the assessment and rehabilitation of the lower limb. His research degrees of M.Phil awarded by Liverpool University and Ph.D. at Manchester University focussed the patellofemoral joint in particular. His recent work on patellofemoral pain syndrome has been the further development of functional joint and muscle evaluation and the use of both brain and knee MR imaging to monitor the effects of non-operative treatment for the knee such as taping and bracing. His involvement with the ARC epidemiology unit at Manchester now includes the treatment of patellofemoral pain caused by osteoarthritis and he is involved in a 5 year study of patellofemoral bracing on synovitis and bone marrow oedema in patellofemoral OA. (152).

Mark Comerford (B.Phty. MCSP MAPA) graduated from the University of Queensland, Australia in 1980. He worked for seven years in the Public Health System, as a Senior Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist. In 1987 Mark started teaching in the Physiotherapy Department at the University of Queensland for the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, lecturing in

electrotherapy, sports physiotherapy and therapeutic exercise. During this time he also worked in private practice in Brisbane.

In 1992 he moved to the U.K. and established postgraduate courses in dynamic stability and muscle balance. This process evolved into Kinetic Control Movement Dysfunction Courses. Kinetic Control Movement Dysfunction courses are now established worldwide, being taught in 16 countries and 4 languages. Mark Comerford is the senior director of KC International, is a part-time lecturer for the MSc programme at the Physiotherapy Dept, Keele University, UK and continues to work clinically. He also does consulting work for various sporting and professional organisations. With Sarah Mottram he has recently set up Performance Stability which offers movement and core stability training courses for those involved in sport and movement. These courses are based on the Performance Matrix - a method of stability assessment and retraining designed to ‘find weak links in the functional performance chain'. Mark has published several papers on the integration of local and global muscle retraining to enhance joint stability function. He has presented numerous conference papers and courses internationally on the area of assessment movement dysfunction and the use of exercise to treat mechanical stability dysfunction.

He has moved back to Brisbane, Australia in 2003 to set up a private clinic. ‘Performance Rehab' is established with the aim of providing a multidimensional approach to the management of musculoskeletal pain, movement dysfunction and elite level functional performance. Mark continues to develop the Kinetic Control process. His current research interests include:

Measurement and validation of direction specific stability dysfunction Investigation of the function and the stability role of psoas major Investigation of the use of imaging ultrasound to determine the interaction of synergistic muscle function in the normal pain free state, the abnormal pain free state, the pain present state and analysis of retraining strategies for muscle re education. He is also involved in the analysis of movement dysfunction relationships to alterations of the golf swing contributing to consistent slicing, hooking etc.

Mark's special interest is in the development of clinically relevant models of mechanical stability dysfunction and the integration of local and global muscle assessment and training into clinical reasoning frameworks.

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South African Physiotherapist who qualified in 1986. Completed a BSc (Med)(Hons) Sports Science in 1988. Awarded PhD in Exercise Physiology in 1994. In 1997 selected to start the Private Physiotherapy Practice at the Sports Science Institute of South Africa. Gained experience working with several National Teams including Women’s Gymnastics, Men’s Hockey,

Football and Rugby as well as All African, Olympics and Commonwealth Games. Arrived in the UK in 2002 to work for Gloucester Rugby Football Club. Subsequently joined Charlton Athletic in 2003 where he worked for 4 seasons before joining Tottenham Hotspur Football Club in June 2007 as Head of Medical Services

Deborah Falla received her PhD in Physiotherapy from The University of Queensland, Australia in 2003. In 2005 she was awarded Fellowships from the International Association for the Study of Pain and the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia to undertake postdoctoral research at the Center for Sensory-Motor Interaction, Aalborg

University, Denmark. Since 2007 she is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Engineering, Science and Medicine, Department of Health Science and Technology of Aalborg University, Denmark. Her research focus involves the integration of neurophysiological and clinical research to evaluate neuromuscular control of the spine in people with chronic pain. In this field, she received the Delsys Prize for Electromyography Innovation in 2004. Her research interests also include investigation of the mechanisms that underpin the efficacy of therapeutic exercise for the rehabilitation of neck pain disorders.

Jon qualified as a Chartered Physiotherapist in 1991 from St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington. He then went on to work in numerous specialities in the NHS for 5 years. During this time he started working part-time in amateur sport with Richmond and London Welsh Rugby clubs and London Monarch and London Olympian American football teams. In 1997 he completed an MSc in

Advanced Physiotherapy at University College London with clinical distinction. He then followed his ambition to work in sport full time working with the Professional squad at West Ham United Football Club together with developing a private practice. In 2001 Jon joined Reading Football club as First team physiotherapist and is now Head of Sports Medicine, dealing with all aspects of players’ healthcare with a team of 8 full-time staff. He also runs a physiotherapy practice based in Reading. Jon is also involved with lecturing and mentoring of MSc and MACP students and sometimes finds time to see his wife and 2 children!!

Paul Holmes is the Director of the Institute for Performance Research at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Paul’s research is primarily in cognitive neuroscience; he leads programmes of research in applied behavioural sciences, visual and motor cognition and stroke rehabilitation. EEG, EMG and TMS techniques inform his interests in human

motor performance. Paul has published widely in many academic clinical and sport and exercise psychology journals and books. He is Section Editor for the European Journal of Sport Science and on the Editorial Board for International Reviews in Sport and Exercise Psychology. Paul is a BPS Chartered Psychologist and registered through the HPC, he also holds joint support and research accreditation as a sport and exercise psychologist with BASES. Paul sits on the LOCOG 2012 Sport Science and Medicine committee for NW England and is consultant psychologist to a number of British athletes and teams. He is an active runner.

Laurie graduated from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada and received her Advanced Diploma of Manual and Manipulative Physiotherapy from the Canadian Physiotherapy Association with distinction in 1988. She has developed and taught continuing education manual therapy courses in Canada since 1987, joined the North American Institute of Orthopaedic

Manual Therapy (NAIOMT) faculty in the United States in 1992 and more recently has taught courses in Europe and Australia. Her areas of interest include Spinal Manipulation, Manual Therapy for the Fascial System and Breathing Evaluation and Retraining. Since 1992 she has been a national examiner for physiotherapists specializing in orthopaedics for NAIOMT and in Canada serving as a Chief Examiner for Canada from 1999 to 2005. Laurie completed a Doctor of Science in Physical Therapy at Andrews University in Michigan in 2007 and is a member of the HaNSA (Head and Neck, Shoulder, Arm) research team at McMaster University. She works as an Advanced Practice Physiotherapist as well as being a Senior Consultant for LifeMark Health.

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Dr. Teyhen is an Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Physical Therapy Research in the U.S. Army-Baylor University Doctoral Program in Physical Therapy at Fort Sam Houston, TX. She also serves as a research consultant to the Spine Research Center and the Defense Spinal Cord and Column Injury Center at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington D.C. and to the

Military Performance Laboratory at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, TX. Dr. Teyhen completed her PhD in Biomechanics from the University of Texas in 2004. She received a Master of Physical Therapy from the U.S. Army-Baylor University in 1995 and a Bachelor of Arts in Sports Science from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1993. Dr. Teyhen’s professional experience and training have been primarily in orthopaedic physical therapy. She is a board-certified Orthopaedic Clinical Specialist from the American Board of Physical Therapy Specialties, a certified Health Fitness Instructor from the American College of Sports Medicine, and a certified Health Promotion Director through the Cooper Institute. Dr. Teyhen’s research has focused on the development of imaging tools that can enhance rehabilitation of spinal and shoulder dysfunctions. She has been developing a novel approach to measure spinal and shoulder kinematics in those with lumbar and shoulder instability using digital fluoroscopic video technique. Furthermore, she has been clinically examining the ability to use real-time ultrasound imaging as a measurement and biofeedback tool to enhance the delivery of medical care to those with spinal pain since 1999. She has lectured extensively on the examination and treatment of patients with lumbar instability, therapeutic exercise, injury prevention, digital fluoroscopic video, and real-time ultrasound imaging. Dr. Teyhen serves as a manuscript reviewer for rehabilitative and biomechanical journals and is currently an Editorial Review Board Member of the

(1958), Department of Human Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, section Biomedical Engineering, Delft University of Technology. After obtaining his masters in Human Movement Sciences in 1984, DirkJan Veeger continued his studies in London, where he obtained his MSc in Ergonomics from University College London. Since 1986,

DirkJan Veeger has been affiliated to the Department of Human Movement Sciences, where he received his PhD in 1992 on Biomechanics of Wheelchair Propulsion. His main research interest lies in the field of musculoskeletal mechanics, and especially the upper extremity. Most profound research subject is the relationship between structure and function, which has been applied to the shoulder in wheelchair propulsion, the effect of surgical interventions such as tendon transfers on muscle function and ADL. Since 2000, Dr. Veeger also serves as Associate Professor at the Biomedical Engineering Department of Delft University of Technology, where he is responsible for research in the area of shoulder biomechanics. Dr. Veeger is chair of the International Shoulder Group, a technical group of the International Society of

Biomechanics and member of the editorial board of Clinical Biomechanics. Dr. Veeger has authored over 100 papers in SCI-indexed journals.

Steve completed his Ph.D at Manchester Metropolitan University in 2003. His Ph.D investigated the extent to which cognitive processes were related to treatment outcome among patients with chronic low back pain. Since completing his Ph.D, he has worked within the physiotherapy department at North Manchester General Hospital, where he has continued to investigate the role of cognitive factors in a

range of conditions such as low back pain, chronic widespread pain, chronic neck pain and chronic fatigue syndrome/ME. In addition to his research, Steve also works alongside physiotherapists developing and delivering interventions for patients with chronic unexplained pain and/or fatigue. He has a number of publications in clinical journals and has presented work at a numerous national and international conferences. He holds honorary research fellowships at both the Centre for Rehabilitation Science (University of Manchester) and the Research Institute for Health and Social Change (Manchester Metropolitan University).

Ann qualified as a physiotherapist in 1973 and worked as a clinician until 1977 when she took up teacher training (PG Cert Ed at Wolverhampton Polytechnic and Coventry School of Physiotherapy). Ann later specialised as a musculoskeletal physiotherapist and worked in private practice for 11 years whilst also working as a full time lecturer/researcher at Coventry Polytechnic. She has been a member of the MACP since

1979. She completed her PhD in 1989 in musculoskeletal physiotherapy and then became Principal Lecturer in Physiotherapy at the then Brighton Polytechnic (later University of Brighton). At the University of Brighton she led postgraduate developments between 1994 and 1998 including the development of the first MSc in physiotherapy at the University an innovative Postgraduate Certificate in Clinical Education and The Professional Doctorate Programme in Health and Social Care. In 1994 she was also appointed as Head of Research and in 1998 became full time Head of the Clinical Research Centre for Health Professions where one of the key research groups focuses on applied pedagogic research. Ann has published widely in the field of musculoskeletal physiotherapy and her publications also include papers on clinical education. She is regularly invited to present keynote addresses at major national and international conferences. In 1998 she was awarded a Fellowship of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy and in 2001 a Fellowship of the Manipulation Association of Chartered Physiotherapists. She is a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Kent. She has been Executive Editor of Manual Therapy Journal since 1995. She is Research Lead for the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, Chair of the National Physiotherapy Research Network, Chair of the National Council for Osteopathic Research and Chair of the National Association of Educators in Practice. She is currently Chair of the International Scientific Committee for WCPT 2011.