Harriët Wittink
Harriët Wittink PhD has been a professor for and chair of the research group Clinical Decision Making in Movement Care at HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht since 2007. She started her career as a physiotherapist and obtained her doctorate with a thesis on the relationship between physical activity, physical fitness and chronic low back pain.
Within the research group, Wittink studies the relationship between exercise and health. She focuses on people with certain medical conditions that prevent them from exercising. Working together with remedial therapists and physiotherapists, her aim is to improve the current state of healthcare for the patients’ benefit.
- 2007 – present: Professor and Chair of the Research group Clinical Decision Making in Movement Care at the Faculty of Healthcare, HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht
- 2005 – 2007: Programme Manager for the professional master’s programme in Physiotherapy
- 1998: Obtained her PhD at Boston University with a dissertation entitled ‘Physical activity, physical fitness and chronic low back pain’
Fields of expertise
- Physiotherapy; exercise physiology
- Chronic pain rehabilitation
- Clinimetrics
Publications
- Development of a work-integrated learning programme for chronic pain physiotherapy in Dutch private practice using co-design methods: description of a journey
- Experiences of physiotherapists learning to adopt a biopsychosocial model by following the ‘pain in private practice’ professionalization course: a qualitative study
- Development and internal validation of a multivariable prognostic model to predict chronic pain after a new episode of non-specific idiopathic, non-traumatic neck pain in physiotherapy primary care practice
