Area of research
Physiology · Pharmacology
Research interest
Research interests include Pain Mechanisms and Treatments, Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation, Pain Management and Placebo Effect, and Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology.
Pain beliefs, treatment expectations, and treatment experiences in spinal pain - a scoping review of qualitative studies.
Stable Mechanoreceptive Somatotopy in Chronic Low Back Pain: Is Cortical Map Reorganization a Myth?
Descending inhibitory rostral ventromedial medulla neurons cause widespread antinociception and contribute to the pain-inhibits-pain phenomenon.
The periaqueductal gray in chronic low back pain: dysregulated neurotransmitters and function.
Systematic review on biomechanical effects of high-velocity, low amplitude spinal manipulation.
Identification of two biological subgroups of complex regional pain syndrome type 1 by transcriptomic profiling of skin and blood in women.
What a Sham(e): Sham-Controlled Conditioned Pain Modulation Effects on Pressure but Not Heat Pain Thresholds in Healthy Volunteers.
Force variability of thoracic spine mobilization and manipulation delivered by experienced physiotherapists to healthy human volunteers and a manikin: an observational study.
The impact of spinal manipulation on lumbar proprioception and its link to pain relief: a randomized controlled trial.
Diagnostic and management concordance between chiropractors and neurosurgeons for patients with low back pain.
Improving numerical measures of human feelings: The case of pain.
Hypercapnia Reduces Perceived Heat Pain in Healthy Subjects.
Personalized assessment and management of non-specific low back pain.
Mechanisms of manipulation: a systematic review of the literature on immediate anatomical structural or positional changes in response to manually delivered high-velocity, low-amplitude spinal manipulation
Healthy women show more experimentally induced central sensitization compared with men.
Unraveling the physiological and psychosocial signatures of pain by machine learning.
Mechanisms of manipulation: a systematic review of the literature on immediate anatomical structural or positional changes in response to manually delivered high-velocity, low-amplitude spinal manipulation.
Improving magnetic resonance spectroscopy in the brainstem periaqueductal gray using spectral registration.
Variability and repeatability of spinal manipulation force-time characteristics in thoracic spinal manipulation on a manikin.
Understanding inter-individual variability of experimental pain habituation and conditioned pain modulation in healthy individuals.
Indication for spinal sensitization in chronic low back pain: mechanical hyperalgesia adjacent to but not within the most painful body area.
An observational cross-sectional study on the characteristics of children and adolescents with non-specific spinal pain stratified by pain severity.
A descriptive evaluation of a job analysis survey in the chiropractic profession in Switzerland - an update after more than 10 years.
Subjective and Objective Assessment of the Preferred Rotational Cervical Spine Position in Infants with an Upper Cervical Spine Dysfunction: A Cross-Sectional Study.
Diffuse noxious inhibitory controls and conditioned pain modulation: a shared neurobiology within the descending pain inhibitory system?
Spinal manipulation characteristics: a scoping literature review of force-time characteristics.
Central sensitization in CRPS patients with widespread pain: a cross-sectional study.
Evidence for dopaminergic involvement in endogenous modulation of pain relief.
Are changes in nociceptive withdrawal reflex magnitude a viable central sensitization proxy? Implications of a replication attempt.
Lunar and mars gravity induce similar changes in spinal motor control as microgravity.