Vasileios Korakakis

Dr. Vasileios Korakakis is an academic, researcher, and physiotherapist specialized in traumatology and sports medicine, with over 25 years of clinical experience in rehabilitation. Currently, he is an associate researcher at the University of Nicosia (Cyprus). He holds a PhD in biomechanics from the University of Thessaly in Greece, a master's degree in health and exercise, a bachelor's degree in physiotherapy from the Higher School of Information Technology in Athens (Greece), and a postgraduate diploma in mechanical diagnosis and treatment from the University of Otago in New Zealand. Vasileios has served as the chief clinical physiotherapist at the Aspetar sports medicine hospital, a FIFA Medical Centre of Excellence, in Doha, Qatar. He has over 12 years of experience teaching postgraduate specialization courses in sports medicine and traumatology. He has been a lecturer at King's College London in the UK and was appointed as an assistant professor at Hamad bin Khalifa University in Doha, Qatar. He has published over 70 original articles in peer-reviewed journals (over 2000 citations on Google Scholar) and has contributed to works on rehabilitation in sports medicine and traumatology. His research interests include blood flow restriction training, assessment and rehabilitation of anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction, tendinopathies, biomechanics of the spine and lower limbs, rehabilitation in traumatology and sports medicine, systematic reviews, and clinimetrics.