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Research group

Functional Exercise Therapy

Learning to move healthily

A healthy lifestyle is not self-evident for everyone. People with physical complaints or limitations need support in developing self-management in their daily movement. The Functional Exercise Therapy research group focuses on optimising self-management support. In doing so, it contributes to the innovation of treatment methods in professional practice and to improving educational programmes for future movement professionals.

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functional exercise therapist helps client standing up from couch

Meet us

The experts of Functional Exercise Therapy

  • Bart Visser

    Professor Functional Exercise Therapy

    Bart Visser is a professor of Functional Exercise Therapy at the AUAS. He is also a special professor of self-management support for Vital Movement at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) and the scientific director of the Centre of Expertise for Urban Vitality at the AUAS.

    Bart Visser professor Functional Exercise Therapy AUAS
  • Daniël Bossen

    Associate professor of eHealth & Movement Behavior

    Daniël Bossen is an associate professor and senior lecturer in the Functional Exercise Therapy programme. He conducts applied research into the underlying interactions between movement, behavior change, and technology. Daniël has a background in physiotherapy and health sciences.

    Daniël Bossen  Associate professor of eHealth & Movement Behavior AUAS