User:Erik Thoomes
Erik graduated as a physiotherapist in 1984, specialized in sports physiotherapy in 1991 and graduated as a manual therapist in 1992. Together with his wife, he works as a clinician in their own private practice. He has taught manual therapy students at SOMT, the major educational program in manual therapy in the Netherlands, and also physiotherapy students at the AVANS University of Applied Science in Breda, the Netherlands. He still teaches courses nationally and internationally, with a focus on clinical reasoning and evidence based practice in general as well as with respect to disorders of the spine. After organizing the national manual therapy congresses in The Netherlands for many years, he was the congress committee chairman of the 2008 IFOMPT congress in Rotterdam. Since 2008 he is Secretary / Treasurer of IFOMPT (www.ifompt.org). He is currently in the process of doing a PhD on cervical radiculopathy.
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Erik J Thoomes
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A novel way of functional retraining of cervical motor control in a water polo player with combined cervicogenic and tension type headaches Marloes Thoomes-de Graaf; Erik Thoomes. J Man Manip Ther, 2014;Oct 22(4), DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/2042618614Y.0000000067
Is manipulative therapy more effective than sham manipulation in adults : a
systematic review and meta-analysis.
Scholten-Peeters GG, Thoomes E, Konings S, Beijer M, Verkerk K, Koes BW, Verhagen
AP. Chiropr Man Therap. 2013 Oct 2;21(1):34. doi: 10.1186/2045-709X-21-34.
The effectiveness of conservative treatment for patients with cervical
radiculopathy: a systematic review.
Thoomes EJ, Scholten-Peeters W, Koes B, Falla D, Verhagen AP. Clin J Pain. 2013 Dec;29(12):1073-86. doi: 10.1097/AJP.0b013e31828441fb.
Lack of uniform diagnostic criteria for cervical radiculopathy in conservative
intervention studies: a systematic review.
Thoomes EJ, Scholten-Peeters GG, de Boer AJ, Olsthoorn RA, Verkerk K, Lin C,
Verhagen AP. Eur Spine J. 2012 Aug;21(8):1459-70. doi: 10.1007/s00586-012-2297-9. Epub 2012 Apr 25.
Practical use of the HOAC II for clinical decision making and subsequent
therapeutic interventions in an elite athlete with low back pain.
Thoomes EJ, Schmitt MS. J Orthop Sports Phys Ther. 2011 Feb;41(2):108-17. doi: 10.2519/jospt.2011.3353. Epub 2010 Sep 17.
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