Dr. Koumantakis is an Assistant Professor of the Department of Physiotherapy, University of West Attica (UNIWA) and Director of the ‘Laboratory of Advanced Physiotherapy-L.Ad.Phys.’, a Research and Education Centre of the School of Physiotherapy at UNIWA since 2020.

He has a BSc(Hons) Physiotherapy degree from the TEI of ATHENS and an MSc & PhD in Physical Therapy from the Victoria University of Manchester, specialising in active exercise programmes for patients with back pain. Throughout the course of his post-graduate studies he has been a Fellow of the State Scholarships Foundation-ΙΚΥ (Greece) and has also received a complementary Scholarship from the Hospital Savings Association (UK).

He has a sufficient number of publications in International journals, a large number of oral and poster presentations in Greek and international conferences and is currently an Editorial Board Member of 2 International scientific medical journals in the field of Orthopaedics (World Journal of Orthopedics & The Open Orthopeadics Journal) also.
In addition, he serves as a reviewer of scientific papers in Greek and International conferences and scientific journals.

He has been a full-time clinical Physiotherapist at the 401 General Military Hospital of Athens for a number
of years (2006-2020). His ongoing research interests involve the application of evidencebased physiotherapy practice in prevention and management of neuromusculoskeletal pathologies, particularly the effects of physiotherapy interventions within a wide age, occupational and physical activity population spectrum.

Google Scholar:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=aMmZg7AAAAAJ&hl=en

Researchgate:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/George_Koumantakis

ORCID ID

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7709-2802

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