Daniel Belavy

@belavyprof

Professor @hsgesundheit. Expert for muscle, joint & bone health. Editorial board @BMJOpenSEM and @JOSPT.

Bochum, Germany Joined August 2018

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Daniel Belavy @belavyprof Nov 26, 2020

Thinking of doing a PhD and wondering what might help you succeed?
Supervising PhD students and want the best outcome for them?

Thread 👇👇👇👇👇 Summary of work in @PLOSONE doi.org/10.1371/journa…

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#AcademicTwitter #phdchat #phdlife #research

Daniel Belavy @belavyprof Jul 2

How well do treatments for chronic low back pain actually hold up over time?

We just published a massive time-course network meta-analysis in @BMJMedicine analyzing 551 trials and 71,126 patients to find out. 🧵👇

🔗 doi.org/10.1136/bmjmed…

Daniel Belavy @belavyprof Dec 4, 2025

Just published in @JOSPT Open

Two treatments for chronic neck pain: no clinically important difference between the two.

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Thank you @PhysioMeScience for sharing 🙏

Physio Meets Science @PhysioMeScience Dec 4, 2025

Just published 🔥open access

The TAMERE RCT: Comparative Effectiveness of Topical Manual Pain Therapy Versus Exercise Therapy in Chronic Non-Specific Neck Pain

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jospt.org/doi/10.2519/jo…

great lead by @tobi_saueressig @PhysioMeScience @PatrickOwenPhD @belavyprof

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Daniel Belavy @belavyprof Nov 30, 2025

Chronic musculoskeletal (MSK) pain affects 1.7 billion people globally and costs hundreds of billions annually.

Exercise helps ✅

⚠️but: evidence base is too imprecise to implement it well

What do 🤔

➡️Editorial in @BMJOpenSEM
bmjopensem.bmj.com/content/11/4/e…
By Nitin Arora 🙏👏

Daniel Belavy @belavyprof Jul 22, 2025

#Psychological treatments to improve sleep in kids with chronic #pain ❓

Systematic #review and #metaanalysis in @JCSMJournal

doi.org/10.5664/jcsm.1…

👇#infographic

➡️ Current treatments do not seem sufficient to improve sleep in young patients with #chronic pain