Rene Castien PhD, MT, PT

Dr. Rene Castien is a senior researcher at the Department of general practice & elderly care medicine Amsterdam UMC, the Department of Human Movement Science, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, and SOMT University, Amersfoort. the Netherlands. Rene completed his Ph.D. research on manual therapy and chronic tension-type headache (2013). His research is published in international journals and has presented the results of his work at (inter)national conferences, workshops, and Masterclasses. Recent research is focussed on the effectiveness and working mechanisms of manual therapy on headaches. Besides his academic activities, René works as a specialized manual therapist in a primary care Headache Centre.