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  TEACHERS
 
HONORARY LIFE MEMBERS
 
Gisela Rolf,
M.A., Senior-Teacher IMTA
 
Peter Wells,

BA, FCSP, Dip. TP, SRP

 
Martha Hauser,

PT, Grad. Adv. Manip Phys. Ther.
 

 

 
PRINCIPAL IMTA TEACHERS
 
StamHugo Stam
MAppSc, B.PT, PT OMT-svomp®   Principal IMTA Teacher

Hugo completed his Bachelor in Physiotherapy in Amsterdam in 1981. After that he moved to Switzerland, where he has lived and worked since 1982. He has been to Australia twice, participating on the postgraduate manual therapy program at the University of South Australia, graduating in 1994 with a Masters of Applied Science degree. Hugo has worked clinically at the RehaClinic in Zurzach since 1984, where he has been clinical supervisor in the physiotherapy department during the more recent years. Since 2008 he also treats patients in a private practice in Würenlingen (www.physiotherapie-wuerenlingen.ch).   Next to his clinical work, Hugo has been teaching postgraduate manual therapy in Switzerland, Germany, Austria and Italy since 1990. He is a principal teacher with the International Maitland Teachers Association (IMTA) and a senior instructor of the Neuro Orthopaedic Institute (NOI) teaching faculty. His special interests are clinical reasoning, neuropathic pain mechanisms and explaining clinical signs and symptoms to patients.  He also has been specializing in the management of frozen shoulder, radiculopathies, carpal tunnel syndrome and the use of  ultrasound as a diagnostic instrument for peripheral neurogenic disorders.
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Pieter Westerhuis
B.PT, PT OMTsvomp®,
Principal IMTA Teacher

Pieter graduated as a physiotherapist in Holland in 1981. Shortly afterwards he moved to Switzerland and has since worked in a number of hospitals and physiotherapy practices there. Pieter qualified as a teacher with the International Maitland Teachers Association (IMTA) in 1988 and was made Senior Teacher in 1991. Since 1997 he has been a Principal IMTA Teacher. Pieter has published numerous articles and book contributions on various subjects.

Currently Pieter continues to work in private practice in Grenchen, Switzerland and teaches postgraduate manipulative therapy in Switzerland, Germany and Austria. His special interests include the management of cervical headache, cervical instability, whiplash associated disorders and shoulder instability versus impingement syndrome.
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SENIOR IMTA TEACHERS
 
Di Addison
B.Phty (Hons.), Grad. Adv Manip Phty, MMPAA
Senior IMTA Teacher
 

Di graduated with a Bachelor of Physiotherapy in 1975. In 1978 and 1979 she undertook a research degree at the University of Queensland, Australia absolved with first class honours. Tin 1980 she completed a postgraduate Diploma in advanced Manipulative Physiotherapy at Adelaide University under the direction of Geoff Maitland MBE followed in 1980.
Between 1975 and 1981 Di worked in various hospitals in England and Australia before moving to Switzerland in 1981. She was clinical tutor at the University of Queensland from 1978 to 1979 and research assistant at the University of Queensland in 1981. After moving to Switzerland she worked in a number of rehabilitation hospitals and physiotherapy practices and completed the examination to become a teacher with the International Maitland Teachers Association (IMTA) in 1988. She has also taught with the Kinetic Control Company (1998 – 2001) and has developed her own concept: „Muscle balance –fine tuning muscle“. In 2008 she was accredited the SEVB1 Certificate of teaching.

Di currently works in private practice in Switzerland. She is Senior Teacher with the IMTA and since 2002 teaches Muscle Balance courses internationally.
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Banks Kevin
BSc, MCSP, SRP
Senior IMTA Teacher
 

Kevin became a Chartered and State Registered Physiotherapist in 1981 at Sheffield City Polytechnic. He has since worked in various hospitals and physiotherapy practices in the North of England. After qualifying as a teacher with the International Maitland Teachers Association (IMTA) in 1992 he was made Senior Teacher in 2001. Kevin has contributed to a number of books including Rehabilitation of Movement-Theoretical Basis of Clinical Practice (Pitt-Brooke J -ed-W.Saunders,London 1997) and is co author of the 6th edition of Maitland's Vertebral Manipulation.

Kevin is currently a musculoskeletal clinical specialist for Rotherham Primary Care NHS Trust. His special interests are clinical reasoning, manipulative physiotherapy in age related disorders and physiotherapy led services in the NHS. He teaches on postgraduate manipulative therapy courses in the UK, Holland, Finland and Germany.
Kevin co-authored with Elly Hengeveld the latest edition of the book "Maitland's Peripheral Manipulation" and contributed to the last versions of "Vertebral Manipulation".
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Bucher - DollenzGerti Bucher-Dollenz

MAS (Manipulative Physiotherapy) MAS (Educational Design) PT, PT OMTsvomp® IMTA Senior Teacher      

Gerti completed her Physiotherapy Diploma in Klagenfurt, Austria in 1983. After working in Austria for a short time she moved to Switzerland where she has since worked at in various rehabilitation centres and hospitals, including ten years at the at the Rehabilitation Centre in Valens. In 1992 she completed a Graduate Diploma in Manipulative Therapy at the University of South Australia in Adelaide, Australia and went on to graduate with a Masters of Applied Science in Physiotherapy in 1993. Gerti qualified as a teacher with the International Maitland Teachers Association (IMTA) in 1993. She is also a member of the Neuro Orthopaedic Institute (NOI). Currently Gerti works in private practice in Heiligkreuz, Switzerland and continues to teach postgraduate manipulative therapy in a number of European countries. Since 2009 she is a Senior Teacher of IMTA. Gertis special interests include the management of orthopaedic patients, neuropathic pain and chronic pain, the integration of manual therapy into the treatment of neurological patients and the neurophysiology of learning.
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HengeveldElly Hengeveld

MSc, B.PT, PT OMTsvomp® Ausb. BKS, Senior IMTA Teacher  

Elly completed her Bachelor in Physiotherapy at the Akademie voor Fysiotherapie in Rotterdam, the Netherlands in 1980. After working in private practice in the Netherlands for a short time she moved to Switzerland in the same year where she has since practised in various hospitals and in private practice. She attained her OMT qualification with the Schweizer Verband für Orthopädische Manuelle Therapie (SVOMP) in 1990 and the teaching qualification „Ausbildnerin Berner Kaderschule“ in 1992. In 2000 she graduated from the University of East London, UK with a Masters of Science. Elly has published numerous articles and book contributions. She is co-author of the 6th edition of Maitland's Vertebral Manipulation and published together with Kevin Banks the latest edition of Maitland’s Peripheral Manipulation (2005) and Maitland’s Clinical Companion (2009).   After qualifying as a teacher with the International Maitland Teachers Association (IMTA) in 1992 she became Senior Teacher in 2003. She was secretary of the IMTA from 1992 until 1994 and Chairperson from 1995 until 2001. Elly is a previous executive committee member of the SVMP (Schweizerischer Verband Manipulativer Physiotherapie)   Currently Elly is a member of the educational committee of the Schweizerischer Verband Orthopaedischer Manipulativer Physiotherapie (SVOMP). She works in private practice and teaches on pre- and postgraduate courses. Her special interests include the treatment of patients with chronic pain, movement-paradigms as the specific basis for the body-of-knowledge of physiotherapists, paradigms of illness experience and salutogenetic perspectives, clinical reasoning processes, especially narrative reasoning in clinical practice, the psychosocial dimensions of physiotherapy and manual therapy and qualitative research methods within physiotherapy research.  
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Pierre Jeangros
PT, PT OMTsvomp®
Senior IMTA Teacher

Pierre was born in La Chaux-de-Fonds in the French part of Switzerland. He completed his physiotherapy training in 1981 in the Physiotherapy school in Basel under Dr.med. h.c. Susanne Klein-Vogelbach. After working at the University Hospital in Basel and in Lausanne, Pierre opened his own practice in Lutry, Switzerland in 1987 and the Postgraduate Study Centre CFP since 2000.
Pierre qualified as a teacher with the International Maitland Teachers Association (IMTA) in 1988. He was made Senior Teacher in 1992. Currently Pierre continues to work clinically in his private practice in Lutry and teaches postgraduate manipulative therapy in Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Belgium and France. His special interests include the management of peripheral neuropathies and cervical headaches.
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van MinnenJan Herman van Minnen
B.PT, PT OMTsvomp®,
Senior IMTA Teacher
 

Jan Herman completed his Bachelor in Physiotherapy at the Friese Akademie voor Fysiotherapie in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands in 1978. He then moved to Switzerland where he has since worked in various hospitals and private practices. He has been practicing in his own physiotherapy practice in Grenchen, Switzerland since 1987. Jan Herman has completed a number of manual therapy training schemes in various concepts in Switzerland and Germany. In 1994 he successfully completed the OMT training scheme in Switzerland and qualified as a teacher with the International Maitland Teachers Association (IMTA).

Currently Jan Herman continues to practice in Grenchen and teaches postgraduate manipulative therapy in Switzerland, Germany and Austria. He is co-editor of the German language professional journal “Manuelle Therapie”.
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PiekartzProf. Dr Harry J.M. von Piekartz

Harry J.M. von Piekartz qualified in 1985 as a physiotherapist at the Dutch University of Enschede (Hogeschool van de Twentse Academie voor Fysiotherapie (TAF)). In 1988 he succesfully completed his manual therapy training (Maitland Concept) in Switzerland. In 1993 he gained the IFOMT diploma in the Netherlands (Nederlandse Manuele Therapie Vereniging (NVMT)). In 1994 he completed his IMTA (International Maitland Teacher Association) teacher training and became in 1995 also a teacher for the Neuro Orthopaedic Institute (NOI).  

From 1996 to 2000 he was involved in a number of multidisciplinary projects on chronic craniofacial pain patients and in 2001 he published his book „Craniofacial Dysfunction and Pain, Manual Therapy – Assessment – Management“(Butterworth-Heinemann). The book was also published in German (Thieme Verlag, 2001) and Spanish (McGraw-Hill, 2003). During the year 2000 he successfully completed his Master of Science degree in Physiotherapy at the University of Leuven (Belgium). His thesis was on „The Neurodynamic Testing of the Mandibular Nerve: Reliability and norm-data“. In 2003 he became a senior IMTA teacher and was granted a fellowship of the ICCMO (International College of Craniomandibular Orthopedics, Section Germany) and was elected as the president of the Craniofacial Therapy Academy (CRAFTA). In 2005 he got his PhD in Rehabilitationscience on the Staffordshire University(UK) and his second book „Kiefer, Gesichts- und Zervikalregion. Neuromuskuloskeletale Untersuchung, Therapie, Management“ was published in German by Thieme-Verlag. The English edition „Craniofacial Pain. Assessment and Management of the Neuromusculoskeletal System“ is is published in 2007 (Elsevier Publishers) Since 2008 he is Professor for Physiotherapy on the University of applied Science in Osnabrück (Germany http://www.fh-osnabrueck.de /) and is involved in several research projects and lectures Rehabilitationscience,Evidence Based Practice, Clinical Reasoning and Models in Assessment and Treatment. Throughout this time he published various articles on this his special interests:
- Management of problems in the craniocervical, craniomandibular and craniofacial region.
- Treatment of children with neuromusculoskeletal dysfunctions.
- Early onset of therapy for children with craniocervical and craniofacial dysfunctions and pain.
- The function of the (cranial) nervous system and the role of physiotherapy in this field.
- Rehabilitation programs and pain management for longterm pain problems in the neuromusculoskeletal system.

Further he works in a  privat practice in the the Netherlands (Physiotherapy clinic for manual therapy and applied neurobiomechanic science) Ootmarsum.
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Renate Wiesner
Dipl. Physiotherapeutin FH, BSc, OMTsvomp® IMTA Senior Teacher  

Renate qualified as a physiotherapist at the Physiotherapy School at the University Hospital in Basel, Switzerland. Her first position in Bad Ragaz, Switzerland, gave her the opportunity to meet and discuss with therapists from all over the world and to participate in various postgraduate courses. Her interest in manual therapy according to the Maitland concept stems from this time. She qualified as a teacher with the International Maitland Teachers Association (IMTA) in 1996. In the same year she finished her OMT Education in Switzerland. Since 2009 Renate has been IMTA Senior Teacher   Renate now lives in Bremen Germany where she worked for 15 years in the orthopaedic and sports rehabilitation centre affiliated to “Werder Bremen”, a first division soccer team in Germany.

Currently she is working in a private praxis in Bremen. She teaches postgraduate manipulative therapy in   Germany, Denmark, Italy, Spain and in the Mid East. Renate has published in various journals, she is a co-author of the book: Concepts in Physiotherapy: Maitland.(Thieme 2008). In her book: Übungen in der Physiotherapie (Thieme 2009) she demonstrates her concept about Selfmanagement in Physiotherapie.
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Her other fields of interest include movement dysfunctions in Golf. Renate is working as a clinical supervisor in the OMT Education of the DVMT. Since 2001 she is also a board Member of IMTA.
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IMTA TEACHERS
 
Maria Brugner-Seewald
PT, PT OMT OEVMPT
IMTA Teacher

Maria completed her physiotherapy training in Graz, Austria in 1994. After gaining 6 years professional experience in a public general hospital she moved to self employment in 2 physiotherapy practices in 2000.
In 2004 she attained her OMT qualification with the „Osterrieichsche Verband für Manuelle Therapie“ (ÖVMPT) in Vienna. Maria qualified as a teacher with the International Maitland Teachers Association (IMTA) in 2007.
Currently Maria continues to practise clinically at a private practice in Pinkafeld, Austria and to teach postgraduate manipulative therapy.
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Trisha Davies-Knorr  

MCSP, OMT-DVMT® IMTA Teacher

Trisha became a Chartered and State Registered Physiotherapist in 1980 at the Oswestry and North Staffordshire School of Physiotherapy in the UK. After gaining 5 years professional experience in various hospitals in the UK she moved to Germany where she has worked at the University Hospital in Munich since 1987. She has held a number of positions there and developed her special interest in manual therapy while working in the outpatients department. In 1996 she attained her OMT qualification with the Deutscher Verband für Manuelle Therapie (Maitland® Konzept) e.V (DVMT) in Germany. Trisha qualified as a teacher with the International Maitland Teachers Association (IMTA) in 1999. She is a previous member of the DVMT board and educational committee.
Currently Trisha continues to practise clinically at the University Hospital in Munich and to teach postgraduate manipulative therapy. She is member of the IMTA board and co-editor of the German language professional journal “Manuelle Therapie”. She is currently studying for an MSc in Medical Education at the University of Cardiff, Wales. Her areas of special interest include outcomes measurement, education and integrating evidence into everyday practice.
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Renée De Ruijter Bouwman
B.PT, MMPAA, PT OMTsvomp® IMTA Teacher  

Renée completed her Bachelor of Physiotherapy in Rotterdam, the Netherlands in 1985. Shortly afterwards she moved to Switzerland where she has worked in a number of hospitals and physiotherapy practices. In 1994, Renée completed a postgraduate diploma in Manual Therapy at Curtin University in Perth, Australia. In 2001 she qualified as a teacher with the International Maitland Teachers Association (IMTA). From 1991 to 1994 and from 1997 to 2002 Renée taught at the School of Physiotherapy in Luzern, Switzerland. She is a previous member of the executive committee and chairperson of the Schweizerischer Verband Orthopädischer Manipulativer Physiotherapie (SVOMP). She edited their professional journal from 1996 until 2003. She was SVOMP- delegate for IFOMT from 1997 until 2008.
Currently Renée continues to practise in Kriens near Luzern, Switzerland and teaches postgraduate manipulative therapy in Switzerland, Austria, Germany,Italy, Spain and the Netherlands. Her areas of special interest include Clinical Reasoning as a process, the treatment of craniomandibular dysfunction, dysfunction in neural tissue, and specific vertebral stabilisation. In 2006 she started a Masters in Medical Education at the University of Bern. Since Januar 2010 Renée is a part time teacher at the MAS Programm in Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy at the Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften ZHAW in Winterthur, Switzerland. Her main topics of interest are Curriculum Development and the use of Standardised Patients in Physiotherapy Education.  
            

Birgit Ferber-Busse

PT, OMT-DVMT® IMTA Teacher

Birgit completed her Physiotherapie Training at the state school for Physiotherapie in Höxter 1986. She gained professional experience at the Rehabilitations- und Rheumaklinik Zurzach (CH) where she first came into contact with the Maitland® Concept. From 1989 until 2002 she worked in the University Hospital in Munich, specializing in shoulder surgery and in a private practice.
Since 2003 she has been working in her own practice in Erding near Munich.
In 1996 she attained her OMT qualification with the Deutscher Verband für Manuelle Therapie (Maitland®-Konzept) e.V (DVMT) in Germany. Birgit has been a member of the board of the DVMT e.V for more than 10 years. She qualified as a teacher with the International Maitland Teachers Association (IMTA) in 2009.
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Jürg Hauswirth
PT, OMTsvomp®

IMTA Teacher
 

Jürg completed his physiotherapy training at the University Hospital in Basel, Switzerland in 1990. After gaining 2 years professional experience in various private physiotherapy practices he moved to the Physiotherapy Department of the Bruderholz Hospital in Basel. As Superintendent Physiotherapist he is responsible for the rehabilitation of patients in orthopaedic surgery and traumatology as both in- and out patients.
In 2000 he attained his OMT qualification with the Schweizerische Verband für Orthopäsiche Manuelle Therapie (SVOMP).Jürg qualified as a teacher with the International Maitland Teachers Association (IMTA) in 2007.
Currently Jürg continues to practise clinically at the Bruderholz Hospital in Basel and to teach postgraduate manipulative therapy. His main areas of special interest include differentiation tests for patients with orthopaedic problems and the management of patients with cervicogenic dizziness.
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Thomas Horre
MSc, PT, OMT-DVMT® IMTA Teacher

Thomas completed his physiotherapy training at the state school for Physiotherapy in Hanover, Germany in 1995. From 1995 to 2001 he gained professional experience in a musculoskeletal outpatients clinic where he advanced to superintendent physiotherapist. From 2002 - 2009 Thomas has been working in his own physiotherapy practice in Osnabruck.   In 2002 he attained his OMT qualification with the Deutscher Verband für Manuelle Therapie (Maitland-Konzept) e.V (DVMT) in Germany. Thomas qualified as a teacher with the International Maitland Teachers Association (IMTA) in 2007.   Currently Thomas continues to practice clinically as a freelancer in a private practice in Hamburg. He has been a member of the executive committee of the Deutscher Verband für Manuelle Therapie (Maitland-Konzept) e.V (DVMT®) from 2003 – 2010 and was  from 2007 – 2011 a member of the OMT-DVMT® commission. From 2008 – 2011 Thomas was a student in the MSc programme of the Danuba university of Krems, Austria. His main areas of special interest include the management of patients with chronic pain.
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LangendoenJohn Langendoen

MSc, Grad.OMT, B.PT Sportsphysiotherapist IMTA Teacher  

John completed his Bachelor in Physiotherapy in Rotterdam in 1976. He has been practicing in private practice in Kempten, Germany since 1988. John attained his OMT qualification in a postgraduate program at Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia in 1994 and graduated with a Masters of Science in Pain Management from the University of Wales in Cardiff UK in 2003.   He is founder and provider of a Pre-Season Screening & Management Concept (PSC) for professional athletes (individual and teams), and is involved in both football (e.g. Korean National Team at the FIFA World Cups 2002 and 2006, currently Head Physio of the Iranian National Football Team) and ice hockey (Dynamo Moscow & Russian National Team 2004-2008).  
John qualified as a teacher with the International Maitland Teachers Association (IMTA) in 1996. Currently John continues to work in private practice in Kempten and teaches postgraduate manipulative therapy, functional elastic taping and pain management in various countries.   He is a past member and chairperson of the educational committee of the Deutsche Verband für Manuelle Therapie (Maitland® Konzept) (DVMT) (1994 – 2007) and is chairperson of the educational committee of the Interdisciplinary Forum for Cranio-Facial Syndromes (IFCFS).   In 2005 John was appointed to the International Advisory Board of the Manual Therapy journal and he became Member of the Standards Committee of IFOMPT
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LiebergenMarc van Liebergen
B.PT, OMT-DVMT®
IMTA Teacher

Marc van Liebergen completed his Bachelor degree in physiotherapy in January 1989 at the Rijkshogeschool Ijsselland in Deventer, The Netherlands. After a short period of work experience in The Netherlands he moved to Germany where he initially predominantly treated neurological patients at a rehabilitation clinic. Here he discovered his interest in manual therapy according to the Maitland Concept. In 1998 he completed his final exam for the OMT qualification in Munich (Deutscher Verband für Manuelle Therapie (Maitland-Concept) e.V (DVMT)). Since 1991, Marc has been working as a physiotherapist and manual therapist in his private practice in Kempten (Allgaeu). In 2008 he qualified as an instructor for the International Maitland Teachers Association (IMTA).
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Werner Nafzger

PT, FH, PT OMTsvomp®

IMTA Teacher

Werner qualified as a physiotherapist at the Physiotherapy School at the Rehabilitation Clinic Leukerbad, Switzerland in 1984. From 1984 he worked at the Rehabilitation hospital in Länssjukhuset Kalmar, Sweden. In 1986 he returned to Switzerland to the Medizinisches Zentrum Bad Ragaz und Rehabilitationsklinik Valens. In 1998 he attained his OMT qualification with the Schweizerischer Verband für Orthopädische Manuelle Therapie (SVOMP). He qualified as a teacher with the International Maitland Teachers Association (IMTA) in 1999.

Currently Werner continues to practise in Heimberg and teaches postgraduate manipulative therapy in Switzerland, Germany and Austria.
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Robert Valentiny
PT, PT OMT svomp
IMTA Teacher

Robert was born in Sarreguemines, Frankreich and graduated as a physiotherapist in Brussels, Belgium in 1987. He has lived and worked in Switzerland since 1988. Robert opened his own practice in Caslano (Lugano), Switzerland after working for three years at the Rheuma- und Rehabilitationsklinik in Zurzach. He qualified as a teacher with the International Maitland Teachers Association (IMTA) in 2001.

Currently Robert continues to practice in Caslano, Switzerland and teaches postgraduate manipulative therapy in Switzerland, Austria, Germany and Italy.

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Rolf Walter
B.PT, PT OMTsvomp®
IMTA Senior Teacher

Rolf completed his Bachelor of Physiotherapy in 1984 at the Twentse Academy of Physiotherapie, Enschede, Netherlands. Shortly afterwards he moved to Switzerland where he has worked in a number of hospitals and practices before founding his own practice in Morbio Inferiore, Switzerland. In 2001 he successfully completed the OMT training scheme in Switzerland and qualified as a teacher with the International Maitland Teachers Association (IMTA). In his private praxis Rolf manages general neuromusculoskeletal problems with a special interest in nerve root problems, headaches, tinnitus, dizziness and sports specific disorders.   Currently Rolf continues to work in his practice in Morbio Inferiore and teaches Manipulative Therapy in Italy, Spain, Greece, Germany, Netherlands and Switzerland.  

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