Prof Dr R.J.E.M. Smeets

Verwoerd, M. J., Wittink, H., Maissan, F., van Kuijk, S. M. J., & Smeets, R. J. E. M. (2025). First-episode vs recurrent nonspecific neck pain: clinical characteristics, recovery, and the impact of pain severity on well-being and functionality. Pain reports, 10(3), Article 1259. https://doi.org/10.1097/PR9.0000000000001259

Cnockaert, E., Smeets, R., Beckers, L., Meeus, M., De Pauw, R., & Van Oosterwijck, J. (2025). Feelings of fatigue, annoyance or anger, or hostility predict improvement in pain-related disability following an interdisciplinary multimodal pain treatment program for chronic musculoskeletal pain: a longitudinal cohort study. Physiotherapy theory and practice, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/09593985.2025.2482056

Breugelmans, L., Smeets, R. J. E. M., Köke, A. J. A., Winkens, B., Oosterwijk, R. F. A., & Beckers, L. W. M. E. (2025). Outpatient interdisciplinary multimodal pain treatment programme for patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain: a longitudinal cohort study. Disability and Rehabilitation, 47(5), 1114-1125. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638288.2024.2364822

Mertens, M. G. C. A. M., van Kuijk, S. M. J., Beckers, L. W. M. E., Zmudzki, F., Winkens, B., & Smeets, R. J. E. M. (2025). Prediction models for treatment success after an interdisciplinary multimodal pain treatment program. Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism, 70, Article 152592. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.semarthrit.2024.152592

Vervullens, S., Meert, L., Smeets, R. J. E. M., Verbrugghe, J., Baert, I., Rahusen, F. T. G., Heusdens, C. H. W., Verdonk, P., & Meeus, M. (2025). Preoperative glycaemic control, number of pain locations, structural knee damage, self-reported central sensitisation, satisfaction and personal control are predictive of 1-year postoperative pain, and change in pain from pre- to 1-year posttotal knee arthroplasty. Knee Surgery Sports Traumatology Arthroscopy, 33(1), 201-219. https://doi.org/10.1002/ksa.12265

Meert, L., Picavet, H. S. J., Vervullens, S., Meeus, M., Van Kuijk, S. M. J., Verschuren, W. M. M., & Smeets, R. J. E. M. (2024). Exploring the association of metabolic factors and chronic musculoskeletal pain over a period of 10 years - the Doetinchem Cohort Study. Clinical Rheumatology, (2). Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10067-024-07251-5

Vervullens, S., Meert, L., Smeets, R. J. E. M., van der Nest, G., Verbrugghe, J., Verdonk, P., Rahusen, F. T. G., & Meeus, M. (2024). A biopsychosocial approach to phenotyping people with knee osteoarthritis awaiting total knee arthroplasty: A secondary cohort analysis. Annals of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, 67(8), Article 101895. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rehab.2024.101895

Mourits, B. M. P., Scholten, E. W. M., de Graaf, J. A., Mol, T. I., van Bennekom, C. A. M., Smeets, R. J. E. M., Reneman, M. F., Roorda, L. D., Visser-Meily, J. M. A., & Post, M. W. M. (2024). Evaluation of participation in a former rehabilitation population: a comparison between USER-Participation Restriction and Satisfaction subscales and PROMIS Ability to Participate and PROMIS Satisfaction with participation 8-item short forms in a cross-sectional multicentre study. Disability and Rehabilitation. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638288.2024.2425747

Smeets, R. J. E. M., Stenvert, J. M., Winkens, B., & Huijnen, I. P. J. (2024). Why do patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain reporting a clinically relevant change on disability not achieve such change in walking ability after interdisciplinary multimodal pain treatment? European Journal of Physiotherapy. https://doi.org/10.1080/21679169.2024.2415573

Limakatso, K., Lebiletsa, T., Smeets, R. J. E. M., & Parker, R. (2024). Care Priorities for Individuals with Lower Extremity Amputations: A Patient Delphi Study. Clinical Rehabilitation, 38(10), 1415-1426. https://doi.org/10.1177/02692155241258913