Morten Hoegh

Associate Professor

Morten qualified as physiotherapist in 1999 and has been working clinically since. In the first decade after graduating he focused on clinical exams in manual therapy, sports physiotherapy and ultrasound diagnostics, and he has been a specialist in sports physiotherapy since 2006. In 2010 he joined the multidisciplinary MSc Pain: Science & Society at King's College London (UK) under the mentorship of prof Mick Thacker, and in 2015 he did his PhD in Medicine/neuroscience at Aalborg University under the guidance of prof Thomas Graven-Nielsen. Morten is now working part-time as an associate professor at Aalborg University and spends the rest of his working-time teaching professionals and non-professionals about chronic pain, as well as volunteering for the European Pain Federation as chair of the EFIC Academy. He has published more than 20 peer-reviewed papers, including the #PainScienceInPractice series in JOSPT, covering basic neuroscience principles that underlie the concept of “pain neuroscience”, and is the author of two books and several book chapters on pain-related topics.