Jan-Willem Ek
Bethesda Medical Center
The Netherlands
Biography
J.W. Ek studied medicine at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam. In the same place he specialized as general practitioner. As well as general practitioner, he worked several years at the University of Amsterdam and Groningen as coach and teacher. After he was confronted by accident with a treatment that seemed successful for long lasting CRPS type 1, he studied this syndrome and got interested in pain, especially chronic pain, in general . This resulted in a publication (Clin Rehabil December 2009 vol. 23 no. 12 1059-1066) and a job at the rehabilitation department of the Bethesda Medical Center in Hoogeveen. Here he works with Drs Hilde Krans-Schreuder, who is also interested in CRPS type 1 and chronic pain.
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