NDS Team - Biography Russell Foley

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Introducing - Russell A. Foley

Physical Therapist, USA

Russell Foley
Instructor, Russell A. Foley PT, MS, BS, Lecturer, with the famous Lambeau Field in the background.
Russell Foley, received a BS degree in Physical Therapy from Northwestern University. He completed his Masters of Science degree with emphasis on study in neuroscience and pain mechanisms. He also received an honorary Doctorate Degree from the International Multidisciplinary Scientific Society established in 1962 in Alma Ata for the first original research from the United States in the use of low intensity laser for pain management.

He was formerly Director of the Pain Clinic at St. Anthony's Hospital Medical Center in Rockford, Illinois. He was a faculty member at Northwestern University Medical School, Programs in Physical Therapy in Chicago where he taught in both the entry-level and graduate programs of the Orthopedic Physical Therapy Tract.

He also served as a civilian consultant to the United States Air Force on pain management and musculoskeletal evaluation and treatment. He is on faculty at Rocky Mountain University in Provo, Utah in the Orthopedic/Sports Medicine Tract. He is also lecturer on Pain Mechanisms at Georgia State University, Division of Physical Therapy located in Atlanta, Georgia. He is a member of the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP).

Mr Foley's continuing clinical focus is on integrating the recent advances in the pain sciences into effective physical therapy assessment and management strategies. His particular interest is on the autonomic nervous system and neurobiological research, which has shed new light on pain mechanisms.

He has lectured extensively though out the United States on the subjects of pain management, TENS, CRPS (RSD), neural mobilization and musculoskeletal evaluation and treatment. Presently, he is director of the Georgia Rehabilitation Center, Inc. in Newnan, Georgia.

For many years Russell has taught extensively throughout the USA and we are very keen to put to good effect his wonderful talents as both a therapist and presenter.

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