Join Dr. Kongsted and I as we discuss her unique role as an author of
the recent groundbreaking Lancet series of articles on Low Back Pain as
well as many other topics. Alice Kongsted, DC, PhD graduated from the
University of Southern Denmark in 1999 and completed her PhD at the
Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Southern Denmark in
2005. Up till 2009 she had clinical work as a chiropractor alongside her
academic work, mainly in an outpatient hospital department. Currently
she holds a position as senior researcher at the Nordic Institute of
Chiropractic and Clinical Biomechanics (NIKKB) and a position as
Associate Professor at the Department of Sports Science and Clinical
Biomechanics at University of Southern Denmark. At NIKKB she has set up a
network of chiropractic primary care research clinics that regularly
participates in data collection for research purposes, the data being
made available to researchers both inside and outside NIKKB. Her
research interests concern spinal pain with a focus on primary care.
This includes investigating the prognosis of spinal pain and why people
have different outcomes.
Lately, she has been much occupied with a large project exploring
ways to implement evidence-based care in practice. She has an interest
in methodology and has taught PhD courses on prognostic research at
University of Southern Denmark and at Curtin University in Perth,
Australia. Alice Kongsted is an Associate Editor of BMC Musculoskeletal
Disorders and she is a member of the editorial board for Chiropractic
& Manual Therapies. She has been involved in The Danish Health
Authority’s development of three national clinical guidelines for
treatment of lumbar radiculopathy, cervical radiculopathy and of
non-specific neck pain. She was part of the Lancet Low Back Pain Series
Working Group that published three papers in March 2018 to call for
worldwide recognition of the disability associated with back pain and
the need for prioritizing this globally growing problem. This Lancet
series will be a focus of our conversation today.
Visit Dr. Kongsted’s research profile at researchgate.net.
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