My first publication

Odds Ratio for low back pain per number of gives in Matthiass-test ( to 4): 1.77 (95% CI 1.08 to 2.91)"

Jump down to warm up

I had heard that Cuban high jumpers use drop jumps from several meters as part of their warm-up, and I wanted to test this claim.

Predicting functioning in chronic back pain?

I wrote an even better manuscript on return to work, which i did not manage to get published

Article from Nottwil

„Erfolgreich zu sein setzt zwei Dinge voraus: klare Ziele und den brennenden Wunsch, sie zu erreichen.“ Dieser Satz stammt von Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Für die Therapieplanung ist er essenziell. Wie man mit einer guten Zielsetzung die Motivation des Patienten erhöht, die Teamzusammenarbeit fördert und so den Therapieerfolg leichter erreicht, lesen Sie hier.

I was a big fan of Conconi Tests

I did a lot of Conconi Tests in my early days.

Gait Stability

This is one topic I would like to do more research on

Swiss paraplegic research Part I

The first paper of my stay at the swiss paraplegic research center in Nottwil

Swiss paraplegic research Part II

Second paper of my stay at the swiss paraplegic research center in Nottwil

Swiss paraplegic research Part III

Third paper of my stay at the swiss paraplegic research center in Nottwil

Swiss paraplegic research Part IV

Fourth paper of my stay at the swiss paraplegic research center in Nottwil

Predicting return to work

A merger of an unpublished manuscript with another unpublished manuscript: the merger got published

I did the ROC Curves

I helped with the statsitics in this paper

Not much of a help for this paper

I did a lot of Rasch analyses which did not end up in the final version

I just helped a little for the stats

some repeated measures

I like this paper

..altough I managed to write forest plot wrong (forrest plot)

I just helped for the stats

A project from the BFH

Search strategy helper

Here I helped with the search strategy

Walk the stairs

I was involved in the measurements, e.g. on the stairs

Lot of fun doing the analyses and writing the paper

Great team on this paper

Just a little help for the stats

Another paper from my time in Nottwil

I helped with the analysis

Meta-Analysis

Another paper from my time in Nottwil

Swiss paraplegic research nottwil

Randomized Trial in Montana

I got the funding - of course way to little - did the analyses and wrote the manuscript. Great team that did run the study in Montana

Inolved in the measurements

Work from my time at the BFH. I helped with the measurements

Just a little help with the stats

Helping out my friend

Work from my time at the BFH

I helped with the statistical analysis

I helped doing the intervention

Another study from my time at the BFH

This was a lot of fun

..and I learned a lot

Always great to work with Slavko

Another product of the collaboration with Slavko

Data from our RCT on gait training in Montana

A lot of fun doing these analyses with Philippe Terrier

I love the Örebro Musculoskeletal Pain Screening Questionnaire

Reliability study.

I learned a lot. Of course I would improve some things today

I would add internal validation with bootstrapping

Just a little help with the stats

From my time at the HES-SO collaboration with the CRR Sion

Another paper from the collaboration with Slavko

I helped with the analyses

This paper was so much fun

Great teamwork with Simone and Hannu

From my PhD work

I learned so much from the team! Thanks to all of them!

Just help a little help with the stats

Another collab with Slavko

I guess I was not of great help in this one

Congratulationsn to Bernhard

From my work in the comittee of the IGPTR-B

Happy to collaborate with these colleagues

It was always a pleasure to collaborate with Peter Oesch

Nice work from Svenja and Maurizio Trippolini

Another work with Slavko

Bland-Altman Plots

Martin always helped me a lot, so I was happy to help him

One of the PhD projects of Martin Sattelmayer

I was never a big fan of vibration training

But I always liked to help Slavko

Falls Prediction

Another paper from Team Leukerbad

One of the papers from Emmanuelle Opsommer's and my SNF project

I am a big fan of the Örebro Musculoskeletal Pain Screening Questionnaire

This was one of my favourite projects

Thanks to Simone Elsig

Intensives Krafttraining kann die Sterblichkeit nach Hüftfraktur reduzieren

A short text on an important RCT

Another great collaboration with the SUVA

WORRK with two Rs. Google it.

Always nice to collaborate with the people from Valens

Cool team

The second paper from Emmanuelle Opsommer's and my SNF project

Nice collaboration with the SUVA

Individualisierte Physiotherapie bei subakuten Rückenschmerzen bleibt wichtig

A short text on physiotherapy for people with subacute low back pain

Jan Taeymans and I were on a course in Wengen and he had the idea for this project

I love working together with Jan!

This was big fun ...

... but hard work. Thanks to Ruedi Steuri for everything

Slavko again - with the help of Philippe Terrier

I love gait stability studies

Fun to hang out with Maurizio Trippolini

Again, a very nice collaboration

An update...

Good vibrations

Vahid stayed with us for several months

Thank you for this experience, Vahid!

Simone Gafner is another great physiotherapist and research from Leukerbad

One of her PhD papers

Another RCT

Again, a very nice collaboration with the SUVA

I love this paper

Nice collaboration with the SUVA

This paper did not save CPM

Look at current guidelines

Gaby you are a champion

This project started before 2010 and finished in 2024

Great collaboration with HES-SO Valais-Wallis Sierre

Thanks Davide, thanks Michael

Overground walking with robotic support probably only better in people with very low walking speed.

Always a pleasure to collaborate with Martin, Ruedi and Odille.

From time to time I do some statistical work for my french friends.

Evaluating diaphragm function should be a clinical priority in the ICU.

Drei häufige Screening-Situationen in der Physiotherapie

A short text on screening in physiotherapy

Leitlinien : eine Einführung

A short text on guidelines

Physiotherapie bei spitalassoziiertem Verlust der Selbständigkeit von älteren Personen

A short text on an article on Hospital Associated Disability

Leitlinientreue bei unspezifischen lumbalen Rückenschmerzen

Adhésion aux recommandations de bonne pratique pour le traitement des douleurs dorsales non spécifiques

It was a lot of fun collaborating with the IG-GLA:D Switzerland

GLA:D Back programme in Switzerland.

Kosteneffektivität der Telerehabilitation unter der Lupe

A short text on cost-effectiveness of telerehabilitation.

Kosteneffektivität der Telerehabilitation unter der Lupe

A short text on cost-effectiveness of telerehabilitation.

A ten year project. Great job by Gaby Mittaz-Hager and her team!

Over 90 physiotherapists were involved in this study!.

Empowering patients with persistent pain: The potential of cognitive functional therapy in interdisciplinary care: A single-case experimental design

Great work of Simone Zingg and Maurice de Graaf. I just coached a little bit for the statistical analysis.

A feasibility study.

I helped with the conceptualisation.

Persistent postural-perceptual dizziness: a systematic review and effect sizes analyses

Just helped a little bit.

Great work of Rahel!

I was not of great help here, but I hate everyone who says that scoping reviews are easy publications. They are not.

Another RCT

I helped with the statistical analysis.

Language errors in pain medicine: An umbrella review

I coached a little bit and I was the second person screening all abstracts and full-texts. By the way: I learned a lot from Bastien and André, thanks to both!

Qualitative study on home-based exercises in people with multiple sclerosis

I was involved in the conceptualisation of the study.

CPAx Reliability

I did the ICC analysis

Drugs and Falls

I helped a little bit with the statistical analsis.

Preventing and treating hospital associated disability is still important.

Marielle Tschopp and did a review on this topic in 2017 but never published it. Finally we will do it...

Persistent Inspiratory Muscle Weakness After Intubation

I helped with the statistical analysis.

The Experience of Women With Breast or Gynecological Cancer After Participation in an Online Mindfulness‐Based Cancer Recovery (e‐MBCR) Program

I helped with the statistics when I worked at the IUFRS (CHUV/UNIL).

I will put on the newer articles when I find time

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About Roger

Roger is a clinical epidemiologist (PhD GHS Unibe in Health Sciences / Epidemiology), and a physiotherapist, working three to four days a week in his private practice In addition, he is doing his own research as an independent researcher.

His research topic is clinical epidemiology in physiotherapy with a special interest in exercise for different health problems, assessment and evidence synthesis.

Clinical epidemiology is: "a marriage between quantitative concepts used by epidemiologists to study disease in populations and decision-making in the individual case which is the daily fare of clinical medicine"
John R. Paul

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About Roger

Roger is a clinical epidemiologist (PhD GHS Unibe in Health Sciences / Epidemiology), and a physiotherapist, working three to four days a week in his private practice In addition, he is doing his own research as an independent researcher.

His research topic is clinical epidemiology in physiotherapy with a special interest in exercise for different health problems, assessment and evidence synthesis.

Clinical epidemiology is: "a marriage between quantitative concepts used by epidemiologists to study disease in populations and decision-making in the individual case which is the daily fare of clinical medicine"