Welcome to the Associate Professorship of Conservative and Rehabilitative Orthopaedics
Our work focuses on developing and optimizing non-surgical treatment options for people with pathologies of the musculoskeletal system as well as those aiming to recover functionality after surgery. The aim of our work is to create more effective, faster and more economical courses of therapy while reducing the need for surgical intervention. To that end, we catpure and analyze images of movement and are active in the field of shoe development.
We are pleased to inform you about our new two-year cooperative research project with the Munich-based software and sensor technology company “elmatrix gmbH“. Within this project, a telemonitoring system for the evaluation of rehabilitation should be developed. The demand for therapy sessions in…
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Robert Schleip joined a team of researchers of Witten/Herdecke University to investigate the influence of the state of myofascial tissues on pathopsychological processes. The article ‘Myofascial Tissue and Depression’ was published in the Journal ‘Cognitive Therapy and Research’.
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Robert Schleip and Werner Klingler joined a team of researchers around Katja Bartsch in an international Delphi study. The article ‘Expert Consensus on the Contraindications and Cautions of Foam Rolling — An International Delphi Study’ was published in the Journal of Clinical…
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Robert Schleip worked together with a team of researchers from Brazil. The article ‘Acute effects of myofascial reorganization on trapezius muscle oxygenation in individuals with nonspecific neck pain’ was published in the "Journal of Bodywork and Movement…
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Robert Schleip worked together with a team of researchers from Brazil. The article ‘Potential Nociceptive Role of the Thoracolumbar Fascia: A Scope Review Involving In Vivo and Ex Vivo Studies’ was published in the "Journal of Clinical Medicine": https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm10194342
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The article ‘Effects of idiopathic flatfoot deformity on knee adduction moments during walking’ by the authors Kimberly Byrnes, Scott Wearing, Harald Böhm, Chakravarthy Dussa and Thomas Horstmann was published in the Journal "Gait & Posture": https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gaitpost.2020.12.021
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The article ‘Immediate Effects of Myofascial Release on the Thoracolumbar Fascia and Osteopathic Treatment for Acute Low Back Pain on Spine Shape Parameters: A Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial’ by th authors Andreas Brandl, Christoph Egner and Robert Schleip was published in the Journal "Life":…
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The article ‘A Role for Superficial Heat Therapy in the Management of Non-Specific, Mild-to-Moderate Low Back Pain in Current Clinical Practice: A Narrative Review’ by Robert Schleip and Jürgen Freiwald et al. was published in the Journal "Life": https://doi.org/10.3390/life11080780
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Robert Schleip worked together with a team of researchers from the Charité in Berlin. Der Artikel ‘Does the Calcaneus Serve as Hypomochlion within the lower Limb by a Myofascial Connection? – A Systematic Review’ was published in the Journal "Life": https://doi.org/10.3390/life11080745
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The article ‘Fibrosis: Sirtuins at the checkpoints of myofibroblast differentiation and profibrotic activity’ by the authors Alberto Zullo, Francesco Paolo Mancini, Robert Schleip, Scott Wearing and Werner Klingler was published in the Journal "Wound Repair and Regeneration":…
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