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Erik Witvrouw

Erik Witvrouw

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Medicine

D-Index
77
Citations
23190
World Ranking
18383
National Ranking
233

Overview

Erik Witvrouw is affiliated with Ghent University in Belgium and has conducted extensive research primarily in the field of Medicine, with particular emphasis on Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Surgery, Complementary and Alternative Medicine, and Rehabilitation.

Their research work covers a range of core topics including sports injuries and prevention, cardiovascular effects of exercise, sports performance and training, cardiovascular and exercise physiology, tendon structure and treatment, knee injuries and reconstruction techniques, and heart rate variability and autonomic control.

Frequent publication venues for Erik Witvrouw include the British Journal of Sports Medicine, Physical Therapy in Sport, Poster presentations, Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, and Sports Medicine.

Key papers authored or co-authored by Erik Witvrouw include:

  • A Machine Learning Approach to Assess Injury Risk in Elite Youth Football Players, 2020, Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise
  • Investigating the autoregulation of applied blood flow restriction training pressures in healthy, physically active adults: an intervention study evaluating acute training responses and safety, 2023, British Journal of Sports Medicine
  • Extended reality in musculoskeletal rehabilitation and injury prevention - A systematic review, 2022, Physical Therapy in Sport
  • Biceps Femoris Compensates for Semitendinosus After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction With a Hamstring Autograft: A Muscle Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study in Male Soccer Players, 2021, The American Journal of Sports Medicine
  • Return to Play After a Hamstring Strain Injury: It is Time to Consider Natural Healing, 2021, Sports Medicine

Erik Witvrouw collaborates frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Evi Wezenbeek
  • Joke Schuermans
  • Dries Pieters
  • Sandro R. Freitas
  • E Jacobs

Best Publications

  • Muscle Flexibility as a Risk Factor for Developing Muscle Injuries in Male Professional Soccer Players A Prospective Study

    Erik Witvrouw;Lieven Danneels;Peter Asselman;Thomas D'Have

  • Intrinsic risk factors for the development of anterior knee pain in an athletic population. A two-year prospective study.

    Erik Witvrouw;Roeland Lysens;Johan Bellemans;Dirk Cambier

  • CT imaging of trunk muscles in chronic low back pain patients and healthy control subjects.

    L. A. Danneels;G. G. Vanderstraeten;Dirk C. Cambier;Erik E. Witvrouw

  • 2016 Consensus statement on return to sport from the First World Congress in Sports Physical Therapy, Bern

    Clare L. Ardern;Philip Glasgow;Anthony Schneiders;Erik Witvrouw

  • Likelihood of ACL graft rupture: not meeting six clinical discharge criteria before return to sport is associated with a four times greater risk of rupture

    Polyvios Kyritsis;Roald Bahr;Philippe Landreau;Riadh Miladi

  • Rehabilitation of Scapular Muscle Balance Which Exercises to Prescribe

    Ann M. Cools;Vincent Dewitte;Frederick Lanszweert;Dries Notebaert

  • Proprioception and muscle strength in subjects with a history of ankle sprains and chronic instability

    Tine Willems;Erik Witvrouw;Jan Verstuyft;Peter Vaes

  • Scapular Muscle Recruitment Patterns: Trapezius Muscle Latency with and without Impingement Symptoms

    Ann M. Cools;Erik E. Witvrouw;Geert A. Declercq;Lieven A. Danneels

  • Muscle strength and hop performance criteria prior to return to sports after ACL reconstruction.

    Roland Thomeé;Yonatan Kaplan;Joanna Kvist;Grethe Myklebust

  • Trapezius activity and intramuscular balance during isokinetic exercise in overhead athletes with impingement symptoms.

    Ann Cools;Ga Declercq;Dirk Cambier;Nele Mahieu

  • Intrinsic Risk Factors for Inversion Ankle Sprains in Male Subjects A Prospective Study

    Tine Marieke Willems;Erik Witvrouw;Kim Delbaere;Nele Mahieu

  • Effects of three different training modalities on the cross sectional area of the lumbar multifidus muscle in patients with chronic low back pain

    LA Danneels;GG Vanderstraeten;DC Cambier;EE Witvrouw

  • Intrinsic risk factors for the development of patellar tendinitis in an athletic population. A two-year prospective study.

    Erik Witvrouw;Johan Bellemans;Roeland Lysens;Lieven Danneels

  • A prospective study of gait related risk factors for exercise-related lower leg pain

    T. M. Willems;D. De Clercq;Kim Delbaere;G. Vanderstraeten

  • Open Versus Closed Kinetic Chain Exercises for Patellofemoral Pain A Prospective, Randomized Study

    Erik Witvrouw;Roeland Lysens;Johan Bellemans;Koen Peers

  • Intrinsic Risk Factors for the Development of Achilles Tendon Overuse Injury A Prospective Study

    Nele N. Mahieu;Erik Witvrouw;Veerle Stevens;Damien Van Tiggelen

  • Patellofemoral pain: consensus statement from the 3rd International Patellofemoral Pain Research Retreat held in Vancouver, September 2013

    Erik Witvrouw;Michael J Callaghan;Joshua J Stefanik;Brian Noehren

  • Relationship between gait biomechanics and inversion sprains: a prospective study of risk factors

    T. Willems;E. Witvrouw;Kim Delbaere;A. De Cock

  • Isokinetic Scapular Muscle Performance in Overhead Athletes With and Without Impingement Symptoms.

    Ann M Cools;Erik E Witvrouw;Nele N Mahieu;Lieven A Danneels

  • Evidence-based framework for a pathomechanical model of patellofemoral pain: 2017 patellofemoral pain consensus statement from the 4th International Patellofemoral Pain Research Retreat, Manchester, UK: part 3.

    Christopher M Powers;Erik Witvrouw;Irene S Davis;Kay M Crossley

Frequent Co-Authors

Mininder S. Kocher
Mininder S. Kocher Boston Children's Hospital
Lyle J. Micheli
Lyle J. Micheli Boston Children's Hospital
Lars Engebretsen
Lars Engebretsen Oslo University Hospital
Roald Bahr
Roald Bahr Norwegian School of Sport Sciences
Robert F. LaPrade
Robert F. LaPrade Twin Cities Orthopedics
Jon Karlsson
Jon Karlsson University of Gothenburg
Matthieu Lenoir
Matthieu Lenoir Ghent University
Arne Roets
Arne Roets Ghent University
Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij
Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij Ghent University

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