Joel Fundaun

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Researcher, physical therapist

Dr. Joel Fundaun, PT, DPT, PhD, is a physical therapist and researcher specializing in chronic pain, with a focus on nerve injuries and neuropathic pain. He completed his Doctor of Physical Therapy at Regis University and his orthopaedic physical therapy residency at Northwestern University-Shirley Ryan AbilityLab. He earned his PhD in Clinical Neurosciences from the University of Oxford with Prof Annina Schmid and is now a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stanford University. He also works clinically as a physical therapist at Stanford's Pain Management Center. His research combines clinical phenotyping, quantitative neuroimaging, and human biosamples to advance the understanding, diagnosis, and management of chronic pain conditions

March 30, 2025

Whiplash Isn’t Just Neck Pain: What Clinicians Are Missing

🎙️ Is whiplash just a musculoskeletal issue—or are we missing something bigger? In this episode, we talk with Dr. Annina Schmid and Dr. Joel Fundaun—two of the world’s leading researchers on nerve involvement in whiplash. The...