194 Appendices ABOUT THE AUTHOR Remco Arensman was born on the 30th of May 1986 in Woerden, the Netherlands. He graduated cum laude from secondary school in Utrecht in 2004 followed by obtaining his bachelor’s degree in Physiotherapy from THIM University of Applied Sciences in 2008. After this, he started working as a physiotherapist in primary care in a private practice focusing on the treatment of patients with musculoskeletal disorders and patients with neurological disorders. After working a few years, he completed the Master program in Clinical Health Sciences, Physiotherapy Research, at Utrecht University in 2014. In the same year Remco started working as a lecturer in the pre-master program in Clinical Health Sciences at Utrecht University, while continuing his work as a primary care physiotherapist in a private practice. In 2016 he joined the Center for Physical Therapy Research and Innovation in Primary Care from the Leidsche Rijn Julius Health Care Centers in Utrecht as a physiotherapist combining working in the clinic with research activities. After the switch to working as a physiotherapist-researcher, Remco also focused his work on patients with musculoskeletal disorders and patients with complaints of the back, nek, or shoulder in particular. The next year, in 2017, he was provided the opportunity to focus his research on patient with low back pain in a PhD position as part of the e-Exercise low back pain project and combine the research with his work as a clinician and lecturer. The e-Exercise low back pain project allowed Remco to study patients’ adherence behavior to home-based exercise recommendations and translate his clinical experience to the research project and vice versa. In 2021 Remco stopped working as a lecturer to focus on his research and clinical work, but returned to a teaching position at the Utrecht University of Applied Sciences in 2023 where he currently still teaches. He completed his PhD project in the first quarter of 2024. Following the completion of his PhD, Remco continues his work as a lecturer at the Institute for Human Movement Studies and as a researcher for the Research Centre Healthy and Sustainable Living, both at the Utrecht University of Applied Sciences. Remco lives together with Edith in Harmelen and is a proud father of Ryan (2009), Rens (2010), and Roos (2013), and loving dad to Amber (2011), Anouk (2014), and Maceál (2016).
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