Nikolaos Strimpakos is a professor at the Department of Physiotherapy, University of Thessaly, Greece. He holds an MSc and PhD in rehabilitation from the University of Manchester, UK and a BSc in both physiotherapy and sports science. He has been vice-rector of academic affairs in the TEI of Sterea Ellada, director of the Centre for Technological Research of Central Greece and head of the MSc Program in Advanced Physiotherapy. Currently, he is the director of the Research Institute of Rehabilitation and Wellbeing, Director of the Health Assessment and Quality of Life Lab and a member of the Quality Assurance Unit of the University of Thessaly. He is also a member of the Education and Research Working Group, European Region of WCPT and National Delegate of the European Society for Shoulder and Elbow Rehabilitation (EUSSER). He has written more than 65 peer-review articles in international
journals with more than 3200 citations. His research
interest and expertise concern the musculoskeletal rehabilitation,
development of objective and subjective outcome measures, exercise in
chronic diseases, hydrotherapy and he has been principal investigator or
member of research teams in projects worth more than 2.000.000 euros.
Eleni Kapreli is a professor of physiotherapy at the University of
Thessaly. She
has an MSc in sports medicine (1996) from the University of Nottingham, UK and
a PhD in sports physiotherapy (2006) from the National and Kapodistrian
University of Athens. In addition to researching the underlying mechanisms of
dysfunction development in chronic neuro-musculoskeletal patients, she is also
interested in sports injury prevention and rehabilitation. In
addition to her experience as a coordinator/member of scientific teams in
several projects, she has also been awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship by the
European Commission. She
is currently the director of Clinical Exercise Physiology and Rehabilitation
Laboratory, University of Thessaly, director of MSc Advanced Physiotherapy at the
University of Thessaly, Director of Lifelong Learning courses, and member of
the scientific committee of the Pahnellenic Association of Physiotherapists for
Sports Physiotherapy accreditation.
