PhDs


YearNameTitleSupervisors
2023 Rinske Bults The True and Perceived Cost of Pain. Effectiveness and Cost-effectiveness of Primary Care Multidisciplinary Treatment and Patient Perceptions in Chronic Pain Paul van Wilgen
Jo Nijs
Raymond Osteloo
Hanneke van Dongen
2023 Ömer Elma The Link between Nutrition and Chronic Low Back Pain Anneleen Malfliet
Tom Deliens
Jo Nijs
Peter Clarys
2023 Michel Mertens Frozen shoulder: potential prognostic factors and natural history. Universiteit Antwerpen. Filip Struyf
Mira Meeus
2022 Emma Rheel (VUB – Ugent) Pediatric pain: the impact of parental responses and pain science education upon pain-related outcomes. Kelly Ickmans
Tine Vervoort
Anneleen Malfliet
2022 Thomas Bilterys (VUB-UGent) “The effect of cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia on sleep quality in patients with chronic spinal pain: a multi-center randomized controlled trial.” Jo Nijs
Olivier Mairesse
Mira Meeus
Maarten Moens
2022 Evelien Van Looveren (UGent-VUB) “Cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia in patients with chronic spinal pain: a multi-center randomized controlled trial.” Barbara Cagnie
Mira Meeus
Kelly Ickmans
Olivier Mairesse
2022 Dorine Lenoir (UGent-VUB) ”Whiplash injuries: how a momentary impact can result in long-term consequences: investigating psychosocial characteristics, pain processing and cerebral mechanisms following a whiplash injury?” Mira Meeus
Barbara Cagnie
Iris Coppieters
Kelly Ickmans
2022 Naziru Mukhtar (UGent) Building towards a culture-sensitive pain neuroscience education for African (Hausa-speaking) chronic pain patients. Mira Meeus
2022 Hester den Bandt The riddle of low back pain: An exploratory study of Central Sensitization features in primary care. Lennard Voogt
Jo Nijs
Kelly Ickmans
2021 Eva Huysmans Perioperative pain neuroscience education: the missing link to decrease the socioeconomic burden of surgery for lumbar radiculopathy? Jo Nijs
Koen Putman
Kelly Ickmans
Maarten Moens
2021 Elien Van der Gucht Pain Science Education after Breast Cancer Surgery Nele Devoogdt
Mira Meeus
An De Groef
Lode Godderis
Bart Morlion
2021 Lore Dams Towards a better understanding of pain after surgery for breast cancer: a biopsychosocial perspective Mira Meeus
Nele Devoogdt
An De Groef
Ann Smeets
2021 Lynn Leemans Movement-evoked pain: a new way of understanding chronic pain David Beckwée
Jo Nijs
Timothy Wideman
2021 Evy Dhondt Individual factors and treatment modalities influencing the nociceptive flexion reflex Lieven Danneels
Jessica Van Oosterwijck
2020 Kevin Kuppens Chronic performance related shoulder pain: New insights beyond tendons and joints Nathalie Roussel
Filip Struyf
Jo Nijs
2020 Andrea Polli When environment meets genetics: the role of epigenetics in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome and chronic pain Jo Nijs
Lode Godderis
Manosij Ghosh
Kelly Ickmans
2020 Amarins Wijma Unravelling pain together: Patient centered transdisciplinary pain neuroscience education Paul van Wilgen
Jo Nijs
Doeke Keizer
2020 Roselien Pas Contemporary pain neuroscience applied to pediatric chronic pain: from mechanisms to treatment. Kelly Ickmans
Jo Nijs
Mira Meeus
2020 Lisa Goudman Objective measurements in patients with chronic low back and leg pain. Maarten Moens
Jo Nijs
Kelly Ickmans
Ronald Buyl
2019 Laurence Leysen Life after breast cancer: the struggle with pain and sleep. Nele Adriaenssens
Jo Nijs
David Beckwée
2019 Stijn Schouppe Cortical and muscular processes of movement preparation: an electrophysiological approach in healthy and low back pain populations Lieven Danneels
Jessica Van Oosterwijck
Stefaan Van Damme
2019 Sanneke Don An incongruent answer to the sensorimotor incongruence theory in people with non-specific musculoskeletal pain. Lennard Voogt
Jo Nijs
2018 Anneleen Malfliet The neuroscience approach to chronic spinal pain. Jo Nijs
Lieven Danneels
Nathalie Roussel
Mira Meeus
2018 Jacqui R. Clark Trait characteristics of centrally sensitised people with nonspecific chronic low back pain: Relationships between sensory profiles, trait anxiety‐related personality types, the extent of central sensitisation symptoms and pre‐morbid lived experiences. Peter Goodwin
Gillian Yeowell
Paul Holmes
Jo Nijs
2018 Linda Hermans Endogenous pain inhibition in healthy individuals and chronic pain patients: Neurophysiological mechanisms and influencing individual factors. Patrick Calders
Mira Meeus
2017 Jeroen Kregel Chronic spinal pain: psychophysical measures, neural correlates, and a novel treatment approach. Barbara Cagnie
Jo Nijs
Mieke Dolphens
Mira Meeus
2017 Jan B. Eyskens The chronic fatigue syndrome: studies exploring gait automaticity and trunk-arm endurance as objective rehabilitation parameters. Greta Moorkens
Jo Nijs
Hugo Stuer
2017 Enrique Lluch Girbés Effect of neuroscience edication on subjects with chronic knee pain related to osteoarthritis: A randomized controlled trial. Jo Nijs
José Sánchez-Frutos
2017 Dorien Goubert Peripheral back muscle dysfunctions and central pain mechanisms: an innovative perspective on differences between recurrent and chronic pain. Mira Meeus
Lieven Danneels
2017 Iris Coppieters Relationships between cognitive deficits, central sensitization, and structural brain alterations in patients with chronic idiopathic neck pain, chronic whiplash associated disorders and fibromyalgia. Unravelling differences in underlying mechanisms. Mira Meeus
Barbara Cagnie
2016 Margot De Kooning Whiplash: Painful stress or stressful pain? Pain modulation in patients with whiplash associated disorders: The role of the autonomic nervous system and visual feedback. Jo Nijs
Nathalie Roussel
Patrick Cras
Liesbeth Daenen
2014 Kelly Ickmans Cognitive performance in patients with chronic central sensitization pain. Jo Nijs
Mira Meeus
2013 Liesbeth Daenen The cortical model of pain and movement: Musiscians and whiplash associated disorders as model Patrick Cras
Jo Nijs
Nathalie Roussel
2011 Jessica Van Oosterwijck Chronic pain and central sensitization: endogenous pain inhibition during exercise and efficacy of pain physiology education Jo Nijs
Mira Meeus
Lorna Paul
2010 Filip Struyf Scapular positioning and movement: a clinical appraisal Jo Nijs
Romain Meeusen
2009 Nathalie Roussel Clinical assessment of range of motion, muscle strength, motor control and pain processing in chronic non-specific low back pain Gaetanne Stassijns
Jo Nijs
Steven Truijen
2008 Mira Meeus Chronic pain in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome: a biopsychosocial approach Jo Nijs
Kenny De Meirleir
Steven Truijen
2003 Jo Nijs Chronic fatigue syndrome: Assessment and associates of activity limitations/participation restrictions Kenny De Meirleir