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A physiotherapist who qualified at the IFMK Assas and holds a master's degree in rehabilitation, disability and motor performance engineering. He works in Paris with patients living with chronic pain, teaches at physiotherapy schools and chairs a peer-to-peer training provider.
2016
French State Diploma in Physiotherapy, IFMK Assas
2020
Master's degree in rehabilitation, disability and motor performance engineering
2
Training institutes where he teaches, including the redesign of a spine module
2022
A review published in the EMC medical treatise
His speciality is not a region of the body but a way of reasoning: how a teaching module is built, how clinical reasoning is passed on, how you avoid passing on certainties. The cervical spine and chronic pain are the ground on which that is done.
2013 to 2016 · Initial training
IFMK Assas, in Paris.
2016 to 2017 · Clinical
A functional rehabilitation centre in the Paris region.
Since 2017 · Clinical
Treating musculoskeletal disorders and patients living with chronic pain.
2018 to 2020 · University
Université de Picardie Jules-Verne, in Amiens.
Since 2018 · Academic teaching
IFMK Assas — in charge of the redesign of the spine module, joint lead on the methodology module and lecturer in musculoskeletal practice — and the IFMK of the AP-HP, the Paris public hospital network.
Since 2020 · Teaching
An organisation committed to making the sharing of knowledge in healthcare easier, with which he designs online courses.
Since 2021 · Involvement
Promoting health in recreational and professional e-sport, and a member of the organising committee of the JFK 2021.
“Rééducation des syndromes fémoropatellaires : mise au point”, published in the EMC treatise in 2022.
Poster at the Journées francophones de la kinésithérapie 2021: preventing and curing the conditions of e-sport players, a field where the science “still needs to level up”.
Congresses: JFK in Paris, Montpellier and Rennes, CIFEPK in Tours, and the World Physiotherapy congress in Geneva in 2019.
Instructional design: co-creation of e-learning courses on clinical reasoning, the cervical spine and injuries in e-sport players.
☆ 4,37/5 · 98 % of the 46 participants recommend this course (post-course survey)
Neck pain, built together with Thibault Thérésy: reason first, treat next, empower always. It is the spine module he teaches at physiotherapy school, carried over into continuing education.
Discover the courseThe explanations are very good and clear, and the clinical case is interesting and true to real life.
It was a really cool course! Having the two of you bouncing off each other makes it genuinely interactive.
The literature and the information provided are of a very high quality.
Pierre-Loup Mercier is a physiotherapist who qualified at the IFMK Assas in 2016 and holds a master's degree in rehabilitation, disability and motor performance engineering. He works in Paris, teaches at the IFMK Assas and at the IFMK of the AP-HP, and chairs a peer-to-peer training provider.
He co-delivers Neck pain: reason, treat, empower with Thibault Thérésy, as an e-learning course.
Reasoning before technique: triage, understand what is keeping the pain going, then choose. Our guide to non-specific neck pain sets out the framework, and our courses in this field are gathered on the spine and pain page.
Yes. He lectures in musculoskeletal practice and in methodology at the IFMK Assas, where he led the redesign of the spine module, and also at the IFMK of the AP-HP.
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