Erik Thoomes

As a specialized physiotherapist, Erik’s clinical as well as his research interests lie in helping patients manage their spinally related dysfunctions and pain.

Erik has taught both physiotherapy undergraduates as well as post-graduate manipulative physical therapy students, with a special interest in clinical reasoning and motor control dysfunction and he still teaches CPD courses nationally and internationally. He has published several manuscripts on patients with neck pain with a focus on cervical radiculopathy and is currently finishing his PhD on diagnosis and management of patients with cervical radiculopathy at the University of Birmingham, UK. He has been a member of the Executive Committee of the International Federation of Orthopaedic Manipulative Physical Therapists (IFOMPT) from 2008-2016.