Erik Thoomes

As a specialized physical therapist, Erik’s clinical as well as his research interests lie in helping patients manage their spinally related dysfunctions and pain. He has taught both physical therapy 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, in 2024, he completed his PhD on “diagnosis and management of patients with cervical radiculopathy” at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is the author of two chapters on cervical radiculopathy in the book The Head and Neck. Theory and Practice. He has been a member of the Executive Committee of the International Federation of Orthopaedic Manipulative Physical Therapists (IFOMPT) from 2008-2016.