#modicchanges

👉🏻 Our guest is Luke Bongiorno, PT, MCMT. Luke acquired the directorship of Noigroup in March 2021 from the founders David Butler and Juliet Gore. His physiotherapy journey began with a degree from The University of Melbourne, Australia, followed by a move into clinical practice in New York. In NYC, Luke co-founded New York Sports Medicine which Orthology later acquired. Still, one of New York City’s most prominent physical therapists, Luke’s extensive experience in the management of acute and chronic pain and sports injuries demands that he travel extensively to manage professional and Olympic athletes, as well as touring performing arts/dance company members. He currently serves as a consultant with the NBA League and European soccer professional teams. Luke is also affiliated with the clinical education programs of Columbia University and Touro College. Luke practices a ‘hands-on’ approach combining his advanced manual skills with neuromuscular/exercise and education. He strongly believes that education is fundamental in optimizing patient recovery and performance. He has taught advanced skills courses in Manual Therapy internationally since 2004 and has been on the NOI faculty since 2015.

👉🏻 Our guest is Dr. Alicia Emerson, PT, DPT, PhD, MS. Alicia is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy at High Point University (HPU), High Point, NC. She is the Director of Clinical Practice, which includes directing HPU’s Pro Bono Physical Therapy Clinic. Open 40 hours per week, this clinic serves an underserved/uninsured population who predominantly have chronic pain. Dr. Emerson is also faculty for HPU’s RAISE Fellowship program, an accredited post-professional training that blends advocacy, clinical reasoning, and orthopedic manual physical therapy. She is a Board Certified Specialist in Orthopaedic, completed the Orthopaedic Manual Physical Therapy Fellowship program at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), and a Master of Science in Rehabilitation Sciences from UIC. Dr. Emerson's research interests center on the functional implications in pain processing in complex patient presentations, community engagement, and leveraging the role of physical therapy to address health inequities, particularly in chronic pain. The research presented here was completed as part of her PhD at the University of Otago, New Zealand.

👉🏻 Our guest is Dr. Stuart McGill, PT, PhD. Stuart is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus (after 32 years at the University of Waterloo, Canada) who authored over 240 scientific journal papers, and 4 books and mentored over 40 graduate students during this scientific journey. Investigations in the laboratory, training center, and back pain experimental research clinic probed back injury and pain mechanisms, rehabilitation approaches, and performance training. As a consultant, he has provided expertise on low back injury to various government agencies, many corporations and legal firms, and hundreds of professional/international athletes and teams worldwide. He is regularly referred to special patient cases from the international medical community for opinion. Many of the athlete clients have returned set records and won international competitions in many sports. His books include Back Mechanic, written for the lay public with pain (also in 20 languages), Low Back Disorders, third edition (2016), written for clinicians, Ultimate Back Fitness and Performance, 2017, written for coaches and athletes, Gift of Injury (2018), a manual for rehabilitating the back-injured strength athlete. His work has been recognized with many awards including the Order of Canada (2020) for international leadership in back pain issues.

👉🏻 Our guest is Dr. Stuart McGill, PT, PhD. Stuart is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus (after 32 years at the University of Waterloo, Canada) who authored over 240 scientific journal papers, and 4 books and mentored over 40 graduate students during this scientific journey. Investigations in the laboratory, training center, and back pain experimental research clinic probed back injury and pain mechanisms, rehabilitation approaches, and performance training. As a consultant, he has provided expertise on low back injury to various government agencies, many corporations and legal firms, and hundreds of professional/international athletes and teams worldwide. He is regularly referred to special patient cases from the international medical community for opinion. Many of the athlete clients have returned set records and won international competitions in many sports. His books include Back Mechanic, written for the lay public with pain (also in 20 languages), Low Back Disorders, third edition (2016), written for clinicians, Ultimate Back Fitness and Performance, 2017, written for coaches and athletes, Gift of Injury (2018), a manual for rehabilitating the back-injured strength athlete. His work has been recognized with many awards including the Order of Canada (2020) for international leadership in back pain issues.

👉🏻 Our guest is Dr. Alicia Emerson, PT, DPT, PhD, MS. Alicia is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy at High Point University (HPU), High Point, NC. She is the Director of Clinical Practice, which includes directing HPU’s Pro Bono Physical Therapy Clinic. Open 40 hours per week, this clinic serves an underserved/uninsured population who predominantly have chronic pain. Dr. Emerson is also faculty for HPU’s RAISE Fellowship program, an accredited post-professional training that blends advocacy, clinical reasoning, and orthopedic manual physical therapy. She is a Board Certified Specialist in Orthopaedic, completed the Orthopaedic Manual Physical Therapy Fellowship program at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), and a Master of Science in Rehabilitation Sciences from UIC. Dr. Emerson's research interests center on the functional implications in pain processing in complex patient presentations, community engagement, and leveraging the role of physical therapy to address health inequities, particularly in chronic pain. The research presented here was completed as part of her PhD at the University of Otago, New Zealand.

👉🏻 Our guest is Dr. Stuart McGill, PT, PhD. Stuart is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus (after 32 years at the University of Waterloo, Canada) who authored over 240 scientific journal papers, and 4 books and mentored over 40 graduate students during this scientific journey. Investigations in the laboratory, training center, and back pain experimental research clinic probed back injury and pain mechanisms, rehabilitation approaches, and performance training. As a consultant, he has provided expertise on low back injury to various government agencies, many corporations and legal firms, and hundreds of professional/international athletes and teams worldwide. He is regularly referred to special patient cases from the international medical community for opinion. Many of the athlete clients have returned set records and won international competitions in many sports. His books include Back Mechanic, written for the lay public with pain (also in 20 languages), Low Back Disorders, third edition (2016), written for clinicians, Ultimate Back Fitness and Performance, 2017, written for coaches and athletes, Gift of Injury (2018), a manual for rehabilitating the back-injured strength athlete. His work has been recognized with many awards including the Order of Canada (2020) for international leadership in back pain issues.

👉🏻 Our guest is Dr. Hanne Albert, PT, MPH, PhD. She has worked as a full-time researcher since 2000, initially as an Associate Professor at the Back Research Center in Ringe and Middelfart, University of Southern Denmark. Since 2013, she has been the medical director at The Modic Clinic combining clinical work with being a senior researcher. Her main interest is clinical research. The first studies focused on Pelvis girdle pain, and she is one of the authors of The European Guidelines of Pelvic girdle pain. Later her interest turned to lumbar disc herniation and Modic changes. She has done new and groundbreaking research regarding the pathogenesis of Modic changes. She was the first researcher to suggest that Modic changes could be caused by bacteria, and was the first researcher to show the high efficacy of antibiotic treatment of Modic changes, this knowledge was completely groundbreaking. Hanne Albert has published more than 60 peer-reviewed research publications. She is an editor of European Spine, and a reviewer of several International Journals amongst these, The Lancet. She travels the world extensively lecturing and is a highly respected keynote speaker at international conferences.

👉🏻 Our guest is Luke Bongiorno, PT, MCMT. Luke acquired the directorship of Noigroup in March 2021 from the founders David Butler and Juliet Gore. His physiotherapy journey began with a degree from The University of Melbourne, Australia, followed by a move into clinical practice in New York. In NYC, Luke co-founded New York Sports Medicine which Orthology later acquired. Still, one of New York City’s most prominent physical therapists, Luke’s extensive experience in the management of acute and chronic pain and sports injuries demands that he travel extensively to manage professional and Olympic athletes, as well as touring performing arts/dance company members. He currently serves as a consultant with the NBA League and European soccer professional teams. Luke is also affiliated with the clinical education programs of Columbia University and Touro College. Luke practices a ‘hands-on’ approach combining his advanced manual skills with neuromuscular/exercise and education. He strongly believes that education is fundamental in optimizing patient recovery and performance. He has taught advanced skills courses in Manual Therapy internationally since 2004 and has been on the NOI faculty since 2015.