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Invited keynote speaker at the International Federation of Orthopaedic Manipulative Physical Therapists (IFOMPT) 2016 Conference.
Dr Annina B Schmid
PhD, MManipTher, PT OMTsvomp
Postdoctoral Researcher
Nuffield Department, University of Oxford
My name is Annina Schmid, many people know me as Nina Schmid. I grew up in Switzerland, trained and worked as a Physiotherapist, and started my research in Switzerland before moving to and researching in Australia.
I completed my PhD on Peripheral Nerve Compressions in 2011 under the supervision of Prof EM McLachlan, A/Prof MW Coppieters, Dr MJ Ruitenberg, Prof PW Hodges, and I have been working as a post doctoral researcher ever since.
My research is driven by the aim to improve management of my patients.
Currently, I am working at the Nuffield Department of the University of Oxford in the UK.
My publications focus on clinical topics, revealing the presence of distorted central processing of perception in patients with carpal tunnel syndrome and uncovering the therapeutic mechanisms of conservative treatment approaches for musculoskeletal conditions.
Regurlarly, there are workshops and courses in pain related areas of neuro-science.
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My research is driven by questions which arise during my clinical work. Apart from the frequent occurrence of extra-territorial symptoms, it is also apparent that a subgroup of patients with carpal tunnel syndrome develops debilitating neuropathic pain that is resistant to treatment whereas others recover spontaneously. These observations prompted me to further study the pathomechanisms of entrapment neuropathies with the aim to improve management of these patients.
I and my co-authors refined an animal model that closely mimics human entrapment neuropathies.
This model is characterised by demyelination, sparing of nerve fibers and behavioural signs of hyperalgesia and therefore provides a solid tool to further study the pathomechanisms of compression neuropathies. Using this model, I demonstrated that mild nerve compression is sufficient to induce a local and remote inflammatory response inside the nervous system.
The identified remote inflammatory response with recruitment of macrophages and T-lymphoctyes as well as proliferation of satellite glia cells around the nerve cells in the dorsal root ganglia close to the spinal cord may explain the spread of symptoms beyond the lesion site found in some patients with entrapment neuropathies.
I have translated findings of the animal model to humans and have demonstrated the presence of central pain mechanisms in patients with carpal tunnel syndrome using different methodologies such as quantitative sensory testing and a cortical task involving left/right judgement of body parts .
In another line of research, I am investigating the therapeutic mechanisms of physiotherapeutic interventions.
In a systematic review, I highlighted that some of the therapeutic effects of passive cervical joint mobilisations can be attributed to a central nervous system component. I also demonstrated that a likely therapeutic effect of nerve and tendon gliding exercises is a reduction of intraneural swelling. Given my findings of local and remote intraneural inflammation in the animal model, such therapeutic mechanisms would be an important conservative treatment avenue for patients with entrapment syndromes.
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