Matthijs Tuijt
Matthijs Tuijt (PhD) started as a senior researcher within the Research Group Innovation of Exercise Care on December 1, 2021. As an exercise therapist and human movement scientist, he is interested in motor learning processes and how technology can support exercise therapy.
Together with researchers from the HvA, he is conducting research into the Knowledge Agenda of the VvOCM Professional Association for Exercise Therapists in the ZonMW project “Optimising Exercise Therapy to improve healthy movement behaviour in the patient's context”. He also teaches Exercise Therapy and Physiotherapy students.
Matthijs is a member of the Scientific College of Exercise Therapy and is daily supervisor in a research project funded by NWO regarding learning processes in low back pain.
Expertise
- Exercise therapy
- Motor learning
- Applied research
Publications
- Effect of postural threat on motor control in people with and without low back pain
- Associations of low-back pain and pain-related cognitions with lumbar movement patterns during repetitive seated reaching
- Reliability of measures to characterize lumbar movement patterns, in repeated seated reaching, in a mixed group of participants with and without low-back pain: A test-retest, within- and between session
