Biografía

Bernhard Taxer is a physiotherapist and pain researcher from Graz, Austria. He is a research associate at the Department of Neurology, Christian Doppler University Hospital, Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg.

His research covers headache and migraine, quantitative sensory testing, central sensitization and somatosensory changes in head and facial pain.

He holds an MSc in Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy, a qualification in Orthopaedic Manual Therapy (OMPT) and a PhD (scient. med.). He has also completed the EFIC European Diploma in Pain Physiotherapy (EDPP). 

He has worked in private practice since 2009 and has taught on Bachelor’s and Master’s programs at several Austrian universities of applied sciences since 2011.

He is a CRAFTA® teacher and a NOI® instructor. He has published widely on pain, headache, and craniofacial disorders, including work with Harry von Piekartz on somatosensory distortion in head and facial pain.