| Year | Name | Title | Supervisors |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Hester den Bandt | The riddle of low back pain: An exploratory study of Central Sensitization features in primary care. | Lennard Voogt Jo Nijs Kelly Ickmans |
| 2021 | Eva Huysmans | Perioperative pain neuroscience education: the missing link to decrease the socioeconomic burden of surgery for lumbar radiculopathy? | Jo Nijs Koen Putman Kelly Ickmans Maarten Moens |
| 2021 | Elien Van der Gucht | Pain Science Education after Breast Cancer Surgery | Nele Devoogdt Mira Meeus An De Groef Lode Godderis Bart Morlion |
| 2021 | Lore Dams | Towards a better understanding of pain after surgery for breast cancer: a biopsychosocial perspective | Mira Meeus Nele Devoogdt An De Groef Ann Smeets |
| 2021 | Lynn Leemans | Movement-evoked pain: a new way of understanding chronic pain | David Beckwée Jo Nijs Timothy Wideman |
| 2021 | Evy Dhondt | Individual factors and treatment modalities influencing the nociceptive flexion reflex | Lieven Danneels Jessica Van Oosterwijck |
| 2020 | Kevin Kuppens | Chronic performance related shoulder pain: New insights beyond tendons and joints | Nathalie Roussel Filip Struyf Jo Nijs |
| 2020 | Andrea Polli | When environment meets genetics: the role of epigenetics in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome and chronic pain | Jo Nijs Lode Godderis Manosij Ghosh Kelly Ickmans |
| 2020 | Amarins Wijma | Unravelling pain together: Patient centered transdisciplinary pain neuroscience education | Paul van Wilgen Jo Nijs Doeke Keizer |
| 2020 | Roselien Pas | Contemporary pain neuroscience applied to pediatric chronic pain: from mechanisms to treatment. | Kelly Ickmans Jo Nijs Mira Meeus |
| 2020 | Lisa Goudman | Objective measurements in patients with chronic low back and leg pain. | Maarten Moens Jo Nijs Kelly Ickmans Ronald Buyl |
| 2019 | Laurence Leysen | Life after breast cancer: the struggle with pain and sleep. | Nele Adriaenssens Jo Nijs David Beckwée |
| 2019 | Stijn Schouppe | Cortical and muscular processes of movement preparation: an electrophysiological approach in healthy and low back pain populations | Lieven Danneels Jessica Van Oosterwijck Stefaan Van Damme |
| 2019 | Sanneke Don | An incongruent answer to the sensorimotor incongruence theory in people with non-specific musculoskeletal pain. | Lennard Voogt Jo Nijs |
| 2018 | Anneleen Malfliet | The neuroscience approach to chronic spinal pain. | Jo Nijs Lieven Danneels Nathalie Roussel Mira Meeus |
| 2018 | Jacqui R. Clark | Trait characteristics of centrally sensitised people with nonspecific chronic low back pain: Relationships between sensory profiles, trait anxiety‐related personality types, the extent of central sensitisation symptoms and pre‐morbid lived experiences. | Peter Goodwin Gillian Yeowell Paul Holmes Jo Nijs |
| 2018 | Linda Hermans | Endogenous pain inhibition in healthy individuals and chronic pain patients: Neurophysiological mechanisms and influencing individual factors. | Patrick Calders Mira Meeus |
| 2017 | Jeroen Kregel | Chronic spinal pain: psychophysical measures, neural correlates, and a novel treatment approach. | Barbara Cagnie Jo Nijs Mieke Dolphens Mira Meeus |
| 2017 | Jan B. Eyskens | The chronic fatigue syndrome: studies exploring gait automaticity and trunk-arm endurance as objective rehabilitation parameters. | Greta Moorkens Jo Nijs Hugo Stuer |
| 2017 | Enrique Lluch Girbés | Effect of neuroscience edication on subjects with chronic knee pain related to osteoarthritis: A randomized controlled trial. | Jo Nijs José Sánchez-Frutos |
| 2017 | Dorien Goubert | Peripheral back muscle dysfunctions and central pain mechanisms: an innovative perspective on differences between recurrent and chronic pain. | Mira Meeus Lieven Danneels |
| 2017 | Iris Coppieters | Relationships between cognitive deficits, central sensitization, and structural brain alterations in patients with chronic idiopathic neck pain, chronic whiplash associated disorders and fibromyalgia. Unravelling differences in underlying mechanisms. | Mira Meeus Barbara Cagnie |
| 2016 | Margot De Kooning | Whiplash: Painful stress or stressful pain? Pain modulation in patients with whiplash associated disorders: The role of the autonomic nervous system and visual feedback. | Jo Nijs Nathalie Roussel Patrick Cras Liesbeth Daenen |
| 2014 | Kelly Ickmans | Cognitive performance in patients with chronic central sensitization pain. | Jo Nijs Mira Meeus |
| 2013 | Liesbeth Daenen | The cortical model of pain and movement: Musiscians and whiplash associated disorders as model | Patrick Cras Jo Nijs Nathalie Roussel |
| 2011 | Jessica Van Oosterwijck | Chronic pain and central sensitization: endogenous pain inhibition during exercise and efficacy of pain physiology education | Jo Nijs Mira Meeus Lorna Paul |
| 2010 | Filip Struyf | Scapular positioning and movement: a clinical appraisal | Jo Nijs Romain Meeusen |
| 2009 | Nathalie Roussel | Clinical assessment of range of motion, muscle strength, motor control and pain processing in chronic non-specific low back pain | Gaetanne Stassijns Jo Nijs Steven Truijen |
| 2008 | Mira Meeus | Chronic pain in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome: a biopsychosocial approach | Jo Nijs Kenny De Meirleir Steven Truijen |
| 2003 | Jo Nijs | Chronic fatigue syndrome: Assessment and associates of activity limitations/participation restrictions | Kenny De Meirleir |