Willem Heijboer

Junior Researcher

Willem Heijboer (1985) is a physiotherapist and clinical epidemiologist. Between 2018 and 2020 Willem worked as a clinical researcher and physiotherapist at Aspetar’s Sports Groin Pain Centre in Doha, Qatar. He currently works as a clinical researcher at the department of Orthopedic Surgery and Sports Medicine of the Amsterdam University Medical Centers, and as a physiotherapist at REHABfysio. His PhD-research focusses on the diagnosis of longstanding groin pain in athletes. He has a research- and clinical interest in football related injuries, with a focus on groin- and knee injuries.

If you want to know more about his research and publications, please check out his Google Scholar profile profile.

Hans Tol

Staff

Hans Tol is a Sports Medicine Physician at the Amsterdam Medical University Centers (University of Amsterdam), AFC Ajax and visiting professional at Aspetar in Qatar, which is accredited as one of the eleven IOC research Centers.

He is also graduated as a human movement scientist (master VU, Amsterdam). Tol is an expert in conducting randomised controlled trails in the field of tendinopathy, muscle injuries and regenerative medicine, including platelet rich plasma and cell therapy. His interdisciplinary sports medicine research focuses on acute muscle injuries, degenerative tendinopathy, risk factor identification and prevention of sports-related injuries.

Besides his clinical work and research projects, he carried out extensive sports medical fieldwork through positions in professional soccer. Since 2004 he worked for the Royal Dutch Football Association, including the U21 National Team. He played in the highest youth teams of a Dutch professional premier league soccer team (somewhere in a previous century).

Publications: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=tol+jl