Henri Kiers

Professor

Research group
Clinical Decision Making in Movement Care
E-mail
henri.kiers@hu.nl
Phone number
+31 6 51 904 835

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Henri Kiers is Professor (at UAS) and Director of the Research Center for Digital Business and Media. He earned his PhD at KU Leuven in 2014 with the dissertation “Proprioception, Physical Activity and Low Back Pain.” His research focuses on the prognosis of musculoskeletal disorders, the factors contributing to the chronification of low back pain, and the application of this knowledge in shared decision-making with patients.

Former director of the Institute for Movement Studies, currently director of the Knowledge Center for Digital Business and Media. Started as a sports instructor in the military, later worked as a physiotherapist and manual therapist, then graduated with an MSc in Human Movement Sciences and obtained a PhD in Rehabilitation Sciences. Also active in the physiotherapy profession through the ‘Stichting Keurmerk Fysiotherapie’.

I am interested in structuring existing knowledge about the world around us to gain insight into complex realities. This approach enables the formulation of hypotheses regarding as yet unknown aspects of those realities, which can then be empirically tested. At its core, this reflects the pleasure of finding things out, as Richard Feynman described.

Expertises:

Measuring variability (movement patterns)
Proprioception
Low back pain
Physiotherapy

"If you multiply the time after the thunder by the speed, you get the distance. So if you divide the distance by the speed, you know exactly how fast you have counted."
Herman Finkers