Joep Suskens

Junior Researcher

Joep Suskens (1994) is a human movement scientist and PhD-candidate at the department of orthopedic surgery under supervision of prof. Kerkhoffs and prof. Tol. Since 2018, he has been involved in the Basketball Muscle & Injury (BAMI) study, wherein he is coordinating three sub-studies: Hamstring Injury Prevention (RCT; healthy male basketball players), Calf Injury Prevention (RCT; healthy (fe)male basketball players), and Hamstring Injury Recovery (OPT; monitoring all kinds of athletes with an acute hamstring strain injury).

His main research is about alternations in muscle fiber architecture (derived from DT-MRI); after a period of eccentric loading, or during the recovery phase after suffering from a muscle strain.

If you want to know more about his research, please check their website.

Gustaaf Reurink

Post-Doctoral Researcher

Guus Reurink (1982) is a sports medicine physician and human movement scientist who has a post-doctoral research position at the Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine department at the Amsterdam UMC, location AMC. He is also a sports medicine physician at the OLVG hospital and at the professional football club AFC Ajax.

His main research topics are: 1) Prevention and treatment of sports related injuries, especially acute muscle injuries; and 2) Growth related injuries in youth athletes. He (co-)supervises several PhD projects and Sports Medicine registrars in their scientific training. 

If you want to know more about his research and publications, it might be worth to check out his Scopus 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