IMH - Institutionen för medicin och hälsa

FIELD OF TEACHING

• Education concerns teaching in physiotherapy at advanced levels and at general research courses
  within the field of musculoskeletal and pain disorders, scientific methodology, assessment and evaluation in clinical research.
• Responsible for semester 5 Physiotherapy Program, 30 credits
• Responsible for course “Theory of Science and Methodology Research in Medicine, 7.5 credits, Master's Program in Health and Society

RESEARCH

• The research area includes clinical reserach within physiotherapy in patients with primarily musculoskeletal or pain disorders

The reserach filed is:

• Clinical examinations, sub- grouping and classification.
• Predictors co-morbidity and clinical course in back pain patients.
• Longterm follow-up of different strategies and interventions within rehabilitation.
• Interaction among professionals, patients and their role in rehabilitation processes.
• Epidemiological studies with focus on mainly musculoskeletal diseases
• Vocational rehabilitation with special focus on translation and evaluation of a Dutch version of the assessment instrument Assessment of Work Performance (AWP).

Thesis: Back Pain: long-term course and predictive factors. Linköping University medical dissertations, 881, Linköping University, 2005.

OTHER ASSIGNMENTS

• Research Supervisor, R&D Department of Local Health Care, County Council of Östergötland
• Reviewer assignments for 5 international scientific journals
• Co-organiser Annual Regional Conference in Physiotherapy 2006-2010
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Paul Enthoven¿s publication in DiVA (publication database)