AUA, FCSP, FACP, MAppSc

BA, FCSP, Dip. TP, SRP

PT, Grad. Adv. Manip Phys. Ther.
 

Hugo Stam

Hugo completed his Bachelor in Physiotherapy at Amsterdam in 1981. He has lived and worked in Switzerland since 1982. He has twice been to Australia to pursue academic studies and graduated with a Masters in Applied Science from the University of South Australia in 1994. Hugo has worked clinically at the Rehabilitation Hospital in Zurzach, Switzerland since 1984 where he has been clinical supervisor in the Physiotherapy Department during the more recent years.

Hugo currently continues to work clinically in Zurzach and teaches postgraduate manipulative therapy in Switzerland, Austria and Germany. He is Principal Teacher with the International Maitland Teachers Association (IMTA) and serves the organization as the chairperson. He is also a member of the Neuro Orthopedic Institute (NOI). His special interests are clinical reasoning, neuropathic pain mechanisms and the clinical explanation of signs and symptoms.

Pieter Westerhuis

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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Di Addison

Di graduated with a Bachelor of Physiotherapy first class honors degree from the University of Queensland, Australia in 1979. In 1980 she completed a postgraduate Diploma in advanced Manipulative Physiotherapy at Adelaide University under the direction of Geoff Maitland MBE.
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 for a year in 1981. After moving to Switzerland she worked in a number of rehabilitation hospitals and physiotherapy practices and became a teacher with the International Maitland Teachers Association (IMTA) in 1988. She has also taught with the Kinetic Control Company.

Di currently works in private practice in Switzerland. She is Senior Teacher with the IMTA and also teaches the concept that she has developed herself: „Muscle balance –fine tuning muscle“.

Banks Kevin

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".

Gerti Bucher-Dollenz

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 Austria and Switzerland. Gertis special interests include the management of neuropathic pain and chronic pain and the integration of manual therapy into the treatment of neurological patients.
 

Elly Hengeveld

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 practiced 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“ (SVEB
1) 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.

After qualifying as a teacher with the International Maitland Teachers Association (IMTA) in 1992 she was made Senior Teacher in 2003. She was secretary of the IMTA from 1992 until 1995 and Chairperson from 1995 until 2001. Elly is a previous executive committee member of the SVMP (Schweizerischer Verband Manipulativer Physiotherapie)

Currently Elly works in private practice and teaches on pre- and postgraduate courses. She is a member of the educational committee of the Schweizerischer Verband Orthopaedischer Manipulativer Physiotherapie (SVOMP). 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.
Elly co-authored with Kevin Banks the latest edition of the book "Maitland's Peripheral Manipulation" and contributed to the last versions of "Vertebral Manipulation".

Pierre Jeangros

Currently Pierre continues to work clinically in his private practice in Lutry and teaches postgraduate manipulative therapy in Switzerland, Germany and Italy. His special interests include the management of peripheral neuropathies and cervical headaches.

Jan Herman van Minnen

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”.

Renate Wiesner

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.

Renate currently lives in Bremen Germany where she works in the orthopedic and sports rehabilitation centre affiliated to “Werder Bremen”, a first division soccer team in Germany. She is the vice-chairperson of the IMTA. She teaches postgraduate manipulative therapy in Switzerland, Germany and Italy.

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Trisha Davies-Knorr

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 board of the DVMT.

Currently Trisha continues to practice clinically at the University Hospital in Munich and to teach postgraduate manipulative therapy. She is the co-editor of the German language professional journal “Manuelle Therapie”.
Her areas of special interest include outcomes measurement, chronic pain management and integrating evidence into everyday practice.
 

Renée De Ruijter Bouwman

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.

Currently Renée continues to practice in Kriens near Luzern, Switzerland and teaches postgraduate manipulative therapy in Switzerland, Austria, Germany and Italy. Her areas of special interest include the treatment of craniomandibular dysfunction, dysfunction in neural tissue, Whiplash associated disorders and specific vertebral stabilization.

Birgit Ferber-Busse

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.
 

Jürg Hauswirth

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.

John Langendoen

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 teacher of a Pre-Season Screening & Management Concept (PSC) for professional athletes (individual and teams), and is involved in both football (Korean National Team) and ice hockey (Dynamo Moscow & Russian National Team).

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.

He is chairperson of the educational committee of the Deutsche Verband für Manuelle Therapie (Maitland Konzept) (DVMT) 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 IFOMT

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Marc 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 treated dominantly 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 is 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).

Werner Nafzger

Werner completed his physiotherapy training in Leukerbad, Switzerland in 1984. From 1984 until 1985 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. Since 1992 Werner has had his own practice in Heimberg, Switzerland. He qualified as a teacher with the International Maitland Teachers Association (IMTA) in 1999.

Currently Werner continues to practice in Heimberg and teaches postgraduate manipulative therapy in Switzerland, Germany and Austria.

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.
 

Rolf Walter

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).

Currently Rolf continues to work in his practice in Morbio Inferiore and teaches Manipulative Therapy in Switzerland, Germany and Italy. He is a Member of the Tinnitus interdisiplinary group in Ticino Switzerland.

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