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Johan Lambeck PT owns an Aquatic Therapy Consultancy. From 1979 - 1998 he was in charge of the Department of Aquatic Therapy in the Rehabilitation Centre Sint Maartenskliniek (Nijmegen, NL). He is co-founder of tthe International Halliwick Association and the  Association International Aquatic Therapy Faculty (IATF).
 
He is the 2020 recipient of the award 'Excellence in Aquatic Physical Therapy" by the Academy of Aquatic Physical Therapy (of APTA-USA), as first non-American aquatic professional and already in 1998 he was named Aquatic Therapy Professional of the year in the USA. He has taught over 1000 seminars in over 55 countries on almost all topics in aquatic therapy.. He is the author or co-author of 5 books / CDRom's , over 50 published articles and chapters in (peer reviewed) journals and books on aquatics and aquatic therapy. In 2005, he joined the Cochrane Collaboration balneotherapy review group. Johan was affiliated as Free Research Associate to the Faculty of Kinesiology and Rehabilitation Sciences, KU Leuven (2006-2016), joining the EU Erasmus Aquaevidence/Aquaoutcome project, see his Linkedin profile . His Research Interest Score = 917 and the h-index = 16 with 1150 citations..
 
He is Honorary Professor at the Zhongshan Vocational College in Nanjing China and Honorary Advisor of the China Rehabilitation Research Center in Beijing.

His consultancy and teaching institute has clients in over 60 countries worldwide. As a knowledge broker, he tries to implement the existing evidence in the daily practice of aquatic therapy. Keywords are:
- patient centered approach based on clinical reasoning
- skillful hands-on teaching
- teaching-by-reasoning-and-doing

He is Senior Lecturer in all networks of the  Association IATF (International Aquatic Therapy Faculty), see www.iatf.info
 
Johan also was primary contact person for the Aquatic Physical Therapy Network affiliated to the WCPT till May 2019
 

Johan Lambeck and James McMillan (“Mac”, the founder of Halliwick). He:

Invited Mac to the Netherlands in 1982
Was in 30 courses together with Mac in Netherlands and Switzerland
Was scientific chair of the congress “Halliwick in 1986”
Was asked to lecture Mac’s courses after Mac passed away in 1994
Co-founded the International Halliwick Association
Co-founded the Halliwick Foundation
Digitalized and takes care of Mac’s professional archives
Wrote over 40 books, chapters and articles about Halliwick
Chairs of the Dutch Halliwick Association
Is lecturer in the Swiss Halliwick Association
Includes Halliwick in Water Specific Therapy courses

 



More information: see his profile at Linked in
 
 
Conference presentations Leuven 2015

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Conference presentations Querétaro 2016

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Conference presentations Mysore 2017

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