Dr. César Fernandez de las Penas, PT, PhD

Cesar Fernandez-de-las-Penas is a Professor of Physical Therapy at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain where he is the head division of a research group focused on clinical pain sciences. He also has 12 years of experience in private clinical practice in a Pain Clinic focussed on manual approaches for the management of chronic myofascial pain.  He conducted his PhD in biomedical Sciences in the Centre for Sensory Motor Interaction (SMI) in Aalborg University and a second PhD in Physical Therapy at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. His research activities are concentrated on biomedical sciences within neuroscience. The specific research areas have been on pain and assessment of pain in volunteers and chronic pain patients. The main focus is on human clinical chronic pain research. He has published around 200 scientific publications and he is first author of approximately 85 of them. Most papers are concentrated on neck pain, headache, carpal tunnel syndrome, lateral epicondylalgia and neuro-physiological effects of manual/hand therapy. He has been invited in 50 conferences giving lectures around the world.