Prof. Dr. Udo WolfAssociate Dean
Physiotherapy
Programme Director Physiotherapy
Fulda University of Applied Sciences
Building
53,
Room
050
Leipziger Straße 123
36037 Fulda
Consultation hours: By appointment by e-mail
CV
- 2011 - 2013: Professor of Physiotherapy at the Hochschule für Gesundheit in Bochum Denomination: Physiotherapy of the Musculoskeletal System
- since 2013: Member of the "conservative spinal therapy" commission
of the German Society for Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery - since 2011 : Member of the scientific advisory board of the journal "Physiotherapy" Pflaum-Verlag Munich
- 2010 - 2013 : Participation in the graduate college "Participation as a goal of care and therapy" of the International Graduate Academy of the University of Halle-Wittenberg
- 2009 - 2013: Doctorate at the Department of Medicine of the Martin Luther University Halle
Topic: The significance of movement quality in the context of physiotherapeutic participation-related diagnostics in chronic neck pain. - Since 2009: Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Scoliosis Self-Help Association.
- since2007 : Member of the working group on back pain of the German Pain Society
- 2005 - 2007 : Member of the national expert group "Quality management in the care process of back patients" of the Bertelsmann Foundation
- since 2005 : Editor of "PhysioScience" Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart
- since2005 : Member of the scientific advisory board of the journal "Manuelle Therapie" Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart
- 2004 - 2006: Part-time study for "Master of Science in Physiotherapy" (Faculty of Medicine, Philipps University Marburg)
- 2003 - 2007 : Editor of the textbook series "Physiotherapy Basics" (Springer-Verlag Heidelberg)
- 2001: Consultant at the deaconry hospital "Elisabethenstift" Darmstadt
- 2001 - 2011 : Head of the physiotherapy course and head of the physiotherapy department at the Faculty of Medicine at the Philipps University of Marburg
- 2001 - 2004: Part-time studies for "Bachelor of Science in Physiotherapy" (Faculty of Nursing and Health at the University of Applied Sciences Fulda)
- 1999 - 2009: Head physiotherapist at the Philipps University Hospital in Marburg Own practical work in the outpatient and polyclinic sector
- 1989 - 1991: Physiotherapist at the Philipps University Hospital in Marburg. (Focus: orthopaedics, traumatology and intensive care medicine). Worked in the inpatient and outpatient sector
- 1997 -2005 : Publisher of "Manual Therapy" Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart
- Since 1997: Specialist teacher and examiner in manual therapy (based on the guidelines of the central associations of health insurance funds). Since then: teaching in the further training programme "Manual Therapy
- 1993: Appointment as instructor for manual therapy according to the Kaltenborn-Evjenth concept. Since then teaching manual therapy (MT) and manipulative therapy (OMT).
- 1988: Studies in English and Romance languages and literature (Philipps University Marburg)
- 1984 - 1987 : Training as a physiotherapist (vocational school for physiotherapy at the Philipps University Hospital in Marburg and the BG Accident Clinic in Frankfurt)
- 1981 - 1984: Training as masseur and medical bath attendant (Fulda Municipal Hospital)
Teaching Areas
- Basics of physiotherapy
- Physiotherapy of the musculoskeletal system
- Manual diagnostics and therapy
- Pain and chronification
- Evidence Based Practice
- Scientific work
Areas of Research
- Manual therapy and biomechanics
- Acoustic emission analysis on stressed tissues
- Clinical application of ultrasound topometry
- Physiotherapeutic diagnostics and therapy for pain syndromes of the spine