Doctorates in the Department of Physiotherapy are possible in accordance with the doctoral regulations of the Department of Medicine. Further information can be found on the page Doctoral studies at our university.
Work in progress
Tom Frankenstein, M.Sc
"Spatial aspects of pain"
Katja Junge
"Impact of a single manual stimulation on pain processing in the trigeminal and cervical systems in patients with migraine and healthy controls"
Jakob Pöhlmann, M.Sc.
"Investigation of temporal contrast enhancement during auditory and thermal stimulation using electroencephalography"
Camilla Kapitza
"Classification of shoulder and neck pain"
Beate Schüßler
"Changes in endogenous pain modulation in acute experimental pain"
Andres Jung, MSc, physiotherapist
"Development of an instrument to assess the external validity of randomized controlled trials"
Arne Vielitz, M.Sc.
"App-based care for patients with migraine"
Christopher Eschke, M.Sc.
"Music 4 Pain"
Christof Degen-Plöger
"Physiotherapy for functional movement disorders"
Lars Hansen
"The autonomic nervous system in migraine"
Oskar Schindler
"Digitally supported learning concept for physiotherapy students"
Luisa Lübke
"Afferent determinants of offset analgesia"
Sophie Gartmann
"Physiotherapy for LongCovid"
Georg Pflügler
"Assessment of motor control in patients with back pain"
Annika Griefahn
"Validation and evaluation of an expert system for exercise recommendations"
Rudolf Knipp
"Screening skills in physiotherapy"
Larissa Pagels
"Pain-related fear of movement in patients with shoulder pain"
Anne Brust
TBA
Benjamin Schäfer
"Physiotherapy for migraine"
Stefanie Stevens
"Prospective evaluation of the validity of the reduced GMFM-66 score in children with cerebral palsy"
Completed work
Dr. Tibor Szikszay 2017-2020
"Descending endogenous pain inhibition measured by offset analgesia in acute, episodic and chronic pain"
Dr. Annika Schwarz 2018-2021
"Predicting the effect of anesthetic blockade of the greater occipital nerve on migraine frequency - stratification by manual examination of the upper cervical spine in an observational study"
Dr. Ruth Meise 2019-2023
"The effect of neurophysiological education and manual therapy for migraine"
Dr. Andreas Alt 2021-2024
"The facilitation of adherence in patients with non-specific back pain to physiotherapy"
Patrizia Khan 2018 - 2024
"Effect of acute experimental pain on an electrocutaneous paradigm for measuring perceptual accuracy"