Olav Versloot

Lecturer-researcher
Olav Versloot works as a lecturer-researcher within the institute of movement studies and the Moving, growing and thriving together research Group. Within the research group, he is involved in the design of the SPiCCCeD-UP study, which will focus on sports participation in children with a chronic condition or disability.

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Olav has a somewhat alternative background. He graduated as a physiotherapist in 1998 and as a sports physiotherapist in 2002, after which he obtained his master's degree in human movement sciences in 2007, followed by a master's degree in clinical epidemiology in 2020. Until 2016, he worked as a sports physiotherapist and exercise physiologist in professional (youth) football in the Netherlands, Qatar and China. In 2023, he obtained his PhD in Utrecht for research into sports participation, sports injuries and sports related bleeds in people with haemophilia. Olav is currently a lecturer in physiotherapy at Utrecht University of Applied Sciences and a lecturer/course coordinator in clinical health sciences at Utrecht University.

With the SPiCCCeD-UP study, I hope to offer more opportunities to children with chronic conditions or disabilities to be able to play sports in a safe way.

Expertises: 

  • Sports participation and injuries
  • Exercise physiology
  • Epidemiology

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