Field of work
Have worked at the Pain Clinic and at the Spine Clinic at Haukeland University Hospital. Worked full time at the University of Bergen in the Physiotherapy Research Group from 1997 to 2017. Became professor in physiotherapy in 2011. Started full time at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences in 2015 (HVL). Was employed full time as vice dean of research at the Faculty of Health and Social Science from 2018 to 2022. Became professor emerita from January 2023.
Member of the research group at HVL named Movement and Function (BeFU): http://www.hib.no/forskning/forskergrupper/bevegelse-og-funksjon/
- Long-lasting musculoskeletal disorders
- Global Physiotherapy Examination (GPE-52)
- https://www.cristin.no/app/projects/show.jsf?id=521939
- Function, activity and work (FAktA)
Publications
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A clinical study of musculoskeletal dysfunction in targets of workplace bullying
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Do pain, function, range of motion, fear and distress differ according to pain duration and work status in patients with low back pain? A cross-sectional study
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Norwegian Psychomotor Physiotherapy versus Cognitive Patient Education and active physiotherapy—A randomized controlled trial
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How do physiotherapists understand and interpret the ‘Pain Attitudes and Beliefs scale’? A cognitive interview study
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Effect of information and exercise programmes after lumbar disc surgery: A randomized controlled trial
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Global Fysioterapi Metode (GFM-52)
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Global Fysioterapi Metode-52 - en kroppsundersøkelse
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Utfallsmål og behandling av frossen skulder med steroidinjeksjoner i allmennpraksis
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Discriminative validity of the pain attitudes and beliefs scale for physical therapists
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Efficacy of cognitive functional therapy (CFT) versus cognitive patient education and active physiotherapy (COPE+PT) in patients with non-specific low back pain – A randomized controlled trial
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Cognitive functional therapy in patients with non-specific chronic low back pain - a randomized controlled trial 3-year follow-up
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Musculoskeletal disorders – a challenge to society and to physiotherapists.
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Pain, risk profile, self-reported and tested function in workers with musculoskeletal pain: a cross-sectional study
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Har informasjon alene samme effekt som trening og informasjon etter prolapsoperasjon? En randomisert kontrollert effektstudie
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Aktivitetstilpasset kognitiv terapi til unge med kronisk utmattelsessyndrom : en kasusrapport
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Outcome measures and treatment of shoulder capsulitis (frozen shoulder) by corticosteroid injections
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The discriminative validity of the Pain Attitudes and Beliefs Scale (PABS)
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The pain attitudes and beliefs scale for physiotherapists: dimensionality and internal consistency of the Norwegian version
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Pain, risk profile, self-reported and tested function in workers with musculoskeletal pain: a cross-sectional study
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The Global Body Examination
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The Global Physiotherapy Examination (GPE-52)
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Predicting outcome in frozen shoulder (shoulder capsulitis) in presence of comorbidity as measured with subjective health complaints and neuroticism
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Rasch analysis resulted in an improved Norwegian version of the Pain Attitudes and Beliefs Scale (PABS)
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The Pain Attitudes and Beliefs Scale (PABS). Examination of construct validity using classical test and item response theory
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Functional evaluation and work participation in health care workers with musculoskeletal disorders
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Experiences with a brief functional evaluation for employees with musculoskeletal disorders
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Study protocol for Norwegian Psychomotor Physiotherapy versus Cognitive Patient Education in combination with active individualized physiotherapy in patients with long-lasting musculoskeletal pain - A randomized controlled trial
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Convergent validity of the Timed Up and Go Test and Ten-metre Timed Walk Test in pregnant women with pelvic girdle pain
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The Global Body Examination (GBE): A useful instrument for examination of patients with long-lasting musculoskeletal and/or psychological disorders
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Bodily findings in different patient groups versus in healthy persons
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Bodily findings in different patient groups versus in healthy persons
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Adhesive capsulitis of the shoulder, treatment with corticosteroid, corticosteroid with distension or treatment-as-usual; A randomised controlled trial in primary care
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Experiences with a brief functional evaluation for employees with musculoskeletal disorders as perceived by the employees and their supervisors
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Self-reported and tested function in health care workers: Is there a difference in function between workers on full, partial or not on sick leave?
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Functional evaluation of health care workers with musculoskeletal disorders on full, partial or not on sick leave
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Self-reported and tested function in workers with musculoskeletal disorders. Difference in function between employees at work versus on sick leave
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Reliability of the timed up and go test and ten-metre timed walk test in pregnant women with pelvic girdle pain
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Timed-up-and-go test and Ten-metre timed walk test in pregnant women with pelvic girdle pain: reliability and validity.
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The Global Body Examination (GBE) - a useful instrument for examination of patients with long-lasting musculoskeletal and/or psychological disorders
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Adhesive shoulder capsulitis: treatment with corticosteroid, corticosteroid with distenstion or wait and see; a randomized controlled trial in primary care
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Passive range of motion in patients with adhesive shoulder capsulitis, an intertester reliability study over eight weeks
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Self-Reported and Tested Function in Health Care Workers with Musculoskeletal Disorders on Full, Partial or Not on Sick Leave
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Examination and treatment of patients with unilateral vestibular damage, with focus on the musculoskeletal system: A case series
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Physiotherapists' attitudes and beliefs towards common low back pain: Factor structure and internal consistency of the Norwegian version of the PABS-PT
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Efficacy of classification-based cognitive functional therapy in patients with non-specific chronic low back pain: A randomized controlled trial
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Body awareness therapies
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Development of the Palpation Domain for Muscle and Skin in the Global Body Examination
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Manuellterapi møter nevrologi: Effekt av artikuleringsbehandling og øvelser på skulderplager hos pasienter med hemiplegi
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Pasienter med kroniske ryggsmerter: Sammenheng mellom bevegelighet, smerte og funksjon i lumbalcolumna
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The Global Body Examination (GBE). A useful instrument for evaluation of respiration
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Hvilken innvirkning har et styrke og nevromuskulært treningsprogram over 12 uker på en pasient med kneartrose?
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Development of the Movement domain in the Global Body Examination
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A model for pain behavior in individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities
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EFFEKT AV MANUELLTERAPI PÅ SUBAKUTTE NAKKESMERTER
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Effekt av manuellterapibehandling hos to pasientar med cervikogen hovudpine. Eit eksperimentelt singel- subjekt studie
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Classification based "cognitive functional therapy" for the management of non-specific chronic low back pain (NSCLBP) - a RCT
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Examination of patients with musculoskeletal pain
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Association between posture and balance in patients with vestibular dysfunction
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En prospektiv studie av sammenheng mellom bevegelighet, smerte og funksjon i lumbalcolumna hos en gruppekroniske ryggpasienter
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The effect of psychomotor physical therapy on subjective health complaints and psychological symptoms
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THORAKAL MANIPULASJON (HVLAT) PÅ GENERELLE SMERTER
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Body Awareness Rating Questionnaire - Development of a self-administered questionnaire for patients with long-lasting musculoskeletal and psychosomatic disorders
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”ER ARBEIDSRELATERTE HÅNDPLAGER UTRBREDT BLANT MANUELLTERAPEUTER I NORGE, OG HVILKE LEDD ER MEST UTSATT?”
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Kan traksjon av temporomandibularleddet og tøyning av M. Pterygoideus ha effekt på kjeveleddsdysfunksjon
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Kartlegging av undersøkelsesmetoder og diagnostiske kriterier som mauellterapeuter i Norge benytter ved mistanke om øvre nakkeleddsindusert symmetriforstyrrelser hos spebarn, - og kjennetegn hos disse barna
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Integration of subclassification strategies in randomised controlled clinical trials evaluating manual therapy treatment and exercise therapy for non-specific chronic low back pain: a systematic review
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Cervicogen hodepine. Vil manipulasjonsbehandling av cervicalcolumna i kombinasjon med avspenning være en adekvat behandlingsform?
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Påvirker spesifikk trening smerte og funksjon hos pasienter med bekkenrelaterte plager etter svangerskap?
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The Global Physiotherapy Method (GPE-52) and the Comprehensive Body Examination (CBE) - similarities and differences
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Development of the Posture domain in the Global Body Examination (GBE)
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Sammenligning av to undersøkelsesmetoder innen psykomotorisk tradisjon: GFM-52 og DOK
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Cervical leddmanipulasjon ved ensidig kronisk lateral epicondyalgia
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Integration of sub-classification strategies in RCTs evaluating manual therapy treatment and exercise therapy for non-specific chronic low back pain (NSCLBP): a systematic review
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Inter-examiner reliability of a classification system for patients with non-specific low back pain
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Effekt av manuellterapi, med og uten triggerpunktbehandling, hos pasienter med nakkesmerte
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Er en ettårig australsk mastergrad i manuellterapi forskjellig fra en toårig norsk mastergrad i manuellterapi på innhold, mengde og kvalitet?
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Global Fysioterapi Metode (GFM-52) og Den Omfattende Kroppsundersøkelsen (DOK)- likheter og ulikheter
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Reliability and validity of a palpation technique for identifying the spinous processes of C7 and L5
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Outcome in shoulder capsulitis (frozen shoulder)treated with corticosteroid and corticosteroid with distension: a randomised pilot study
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Description of a Modified Vestibular Rehabilitation Program
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Er spesifikke segmentelle stabiliserende øvelser ad modum manuellterapi effektivt på smerte, funksjon og nakkebevegelighet hos en pasient med nakkeslengskade?
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Description of a modified vestibular rehabilitation program
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”Manipulasjon og tøyning av m.iliopsoashar det effekt hos en kronisk ryggpasient?”
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Effekt av spesifikke artikuleringsteknikker for kjeveleddsdysfunksjon. - En SSED-studie
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The effect of mobilisation on joint motion, function and pain in two patients with glenohumeral adhesive capsulitis
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Emosjonelle symptomer og helseplager hos pasienter som oppsøker psykomotorisk fysioterapi
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”Vil manipulasjon av et hypomobilt proksimalt tibiofibularledd gi en umiddelbar økt kraft-utvikling i peroneusmuskulaturen, redusert smerter/ubehag og bedret balanse hos pasienter med Lateral ankle sprain, LAS?” Et singel subjekt eksperimentell design
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Psychological variables and health complaints in patients seeking psychomotor physiotherapy
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Psychological variables and health complaints in patients seeking psychomotor physiotherapy
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Is pain in patellofemoral pain syndrome neuropathic?
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Effekt av spesifikke artikuleringsteknikker, øvelsesbehandling og pasientveiledning ved kjeveleddsproblematikk (Temporomandibular Disorders)
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Bruk av fysiske tester - har de prediksjonsevne?
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Kan kroppslige reaksjoner registreres og i tilfelle hvordan?
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Bodily findings in patients with dizziness undergoing a group exercise program
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Physical findings in patients with dizziness undergoing a group exercise programme
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Det verkende hofteledd-; Kan manuellterapi hjelpe?
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Manipulasjon av thoracalcolumna på elite langrennsløpere med astma. Et Single Subjekt Design
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Hypomobilitet og Torakale Smerter Single Subject Experimental Design
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Quantitative sensory testing of patients with long lasting Patellofemoral pain syndrome
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Endrer informasjonskampanje rettet mot legene pasientenes holdninger til ryggplager?
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Body Awareness Therapies
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Body Awareness Therapies
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Kan en Maitland anteriør posteriør artikulering av grad II av tibiofemoralleddet gi smertelette hos pasienter med gonatrose?
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Manipulasjon som behandling av lateral epikondyalgia
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Thorakale manipulasjonar ved kroniske mekaniske nakkesmerter
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Effekt av cervial behandling ved lateral epikondylitt.Singel subjekt Eksperimental Design,SSED
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Effekt av artikuleringsteknikker ved nedsatt bevegelse i ankelleddet etter en fraktur
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Different outcomes in subgroups of patients with long-term musculoskeletal pain
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Har spesifikk mobilisering av håndroten klinisk relevans i behandling av pasienter med pareser i armen?
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Effekt av manuell terapi og trening på motorisk kontroll ved skulderinnklemningssyndrom, Et singel subject ekspermental design
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Kroppslige endringer hos pasienter med muskel- og skjelettplager
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Læringslandskap og student-/veilederforhold
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Movement tests used as an objective measure in patients with long-lasting musculoskeletal pain
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Sammenheng mellom smerte, funksjon og bevegelighet hos pasienter med langvarige ryggplager
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Relationships between pain, disability and physical impairment in patients with long-lasting musculoskeletal pain
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Sensitivity to change and responsiveness of the global physiotherapy examination (GPE-52) in patients with long-lasting musculoskeletal pain
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Do Norwegian manual therapists provide management for patients with acute low back pain in accordance with clinical guidelines?
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Fysioterapeutisk perspektiv på psykosomatisk medisin
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Hvordan manifesterer smerter seg i kroppen?
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Movement changes and work status in patients with localized versus widespread long-lasting low-back pain
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Are manual therapists� information, advice and other treatment given to patients in acordance with clinical guidelines?
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Global Fysioterapi Undersøkelse (GPE-52)
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Hvordan manifesterer smerter seg i kroppen?
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Intervensjoner som har vist lovende effekt ved kvalitativt gode studier
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Examination of movement in patients with long-lasting musculoskeletal pain: reliability and validity
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Palpation of muscle and skin. Is this a reliable and valid procedure in patients with long-lasting musculoskeletal pain?
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Rehabilitation: Assessing the outcome
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Discriminative validity of the Global Physiotherapy Examination-52 in patients with long-lasting musculoskeletal pain versus healthy persons
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Measurement properties of a Global Physiotherapy Examination in patients with long-lasting musculoskeletal pain
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A screening instrument for low back pain patients
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Management of chronic myofascial pain: finding common ground. Introduction + Cross-disciplinary approaches and physiotherapy
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Examination of Movement in patients with long-lasting musculoskeletal pain: reliability, validity and responsiveness
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Examination of respiration in patients with long-lasting musculoskeletal pain: reliability and validity
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Movement in patients with long-lasting muskeoskeletal pain: Reliability, Validity and Responsiveness
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Rehabilitation: Assessing the outcome
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Movement changes (modified version) and work status in patients with localized versus widespread low-back pain
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Work status related to movement changes in patients with localized versus widespread long-lasting low back pain
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Gammeldags tenkemåte på stivt papir? Kommentar til Trond Wieseners innlegg i 8/2002 om tverrfaglige retningslinjer for akutt rygg
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Prediksjon av fremtidig arbeidsførhet hos pasienter med korsryggsmerter basert på et psykologisk screeninginstrument (MMPI-2)
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Relationships between physical findings (GPE-78) and psychological profiles (MMPI-2) in patients with long-lasting musculoskeletal pain
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Endring innen Bevegelse og arbeidsførhet hos pasienter med langvarige korsryggsmerter
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Avspenning og kroppsbevissthet. Instruksjonshefte til CD og kassett
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Relationships between musculoskeletal pain and psychopathology factors (GPE-78 and MMPI-2)
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Bodily aberrations and change over time in two sub-groups of chronic low back pain patients classified by pain drawing