Pieter J. Gräper received his BSc. in Physiotherapy from the University of Applied Sciences in Leiden (The Netherlands) in 2002, his MSc. in Manual Therapy from the University of Applied Sciences SOMT University of Physiotherapy (The Netherlands) in 2013, and his MSc. in Orthopedic Manipulative Physiotherapy in 2016, from Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium) in 2016, and is now pursuing his PhD in Rehabilitation Sciences and Physiotherapy at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium). He is working as a physiotherapist and orthopedic manipulative physiotherapist in primary care physiotherapy practices in the Netherlands (2002-current). His research topics are nonspecific low back pain, central sensitization, chronic pain, sensory profiles, and sensory processing.
Dr Jacqueline (Jacqui) Clark earned a joint PhD, in central sensitization in chronic low back pain from Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, and Vrije Universitei Brussel, Belgium, in 2018. Qualifying as a physiotherapist in London in 1989, she is now the Clinical Director of Pains and Brains, New Zealand, and a post-doctoral researcher with Vrije Universitei Brussel. She holds the clinical consultant role of Registered Specialist Pain Physiotherapist and is a leader of the profession in New Zealand. She has taught clinical skills internationally and lectured extensively since 1997 in motor control and sensorimotor rehabilitation for recurrent and persistent musculoskeletal pain. Her work in nociplastic pain has resulted in numerous presentations, lectures, and clinical rehabilitation courses. Late to the formal academic world, she has now achieved over 20 peer-reviewed publications; professional memberships include IASP, Pain in Motion international research collaboration, New Zealand Pain Society, New Zealand Physiotherapy Specialists, Chartered Society of Physiotherapy UK. Her current research interests include nociplastic pain, sensory loss, sensorimotor function, anxiety, sensory profiling, chronic low back pain, and predictors of central sensitization.
Joannes M Hallegraeff. Faculty of Physical Education and Physiotherapy, Department of Physiotherapy, Human Physiology and Anatomy, Experimental Anatomy research group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium. Education: Study of Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Amsterdam(2005). His Ph.D. track started in 2009 at the University of Groningen with the publication of the thesis 'Common musculoskeletal disorders in primary care physiotherapy: assessment and intervention' in 2013. Physiotherapy was completed at the University of Applied Science Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Since 2006 he has been associated with SOMT University of Physiotherapy, first as a lecturer in the master's degree program in Manual Therapy, then as coordinator of the continuing education program, and since 2020 as Head of the master's degree program in Musculoskeletal Ultrasound. His research interests are focused on low back pain and factors that exert a prognostic influence on the course: ('Unraveling the complexity of low back pain'). Cognitive and psychological factors in low back pain have his scientific interest.
