Roland Reezigt

Background

About Roland Reezigt

My main interest lies in the domain of pain, central pain processing and manual therapy / musculoskeletal physiotherapy. I also have a huge interest in the knowledge and attitude of pain in healthcare practioners (HCPs), students and the educational curricula. Clinically, i'm a Manual Therapist at Expertise Centrum Groningen. Besides Physiotherapy and Manual Therapy, i've additionally studied a MSc. in advanced (dissection) anatomy, advanced artrokinematics and biomechanics, medical imaging and general methodology and biostatistics at the Vrij Universiteit Brussel. I'm a region ambassador (North-East) for the Dutch society of manual therapy (NVMT), connecting manual therapists in the region and organising activities for knowledge transfer and valorisation. Additionally, i'm a lecturer at the Hanze University of Applied Sciences (Hanzehogeschool Groningen) at the department of Physiotherapy and i'm doing a PhD at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (on the effect of manual therapy on central pain mechanisms in patients with persistent neck pain), where I also teach about pain, neurophysiology, central pain processing and measurement of pain in the master Musculoskeletal Physiotherapeutic Sciences.