Research
Curriculum Vitae
In 2004, Claude Spicher, founded the Somatosensory Rehabilitation Centre of the human body at the Clinique Générale in Fribourg, Switzerland. He is scientific collaborator for the Unit of Physiology at the University of Fribourg (Prof. E.M. Rouiller) as well as the editor-in-chief of the e-News for Somatosensory Rehabilitation - #eNewsSomatosens. He awarded the hand therapist certificate of the Swiss Society for Hand Therapy and is a member of the society since its foundation. As occupational therapist, he has made about three hundred communications in Switzerland, France, Germany, Belgium, USA and Canada and has published articles in several internationally renowned publications as: Packham, T., Spicher, C.J., MacDermid, J.C., Michlovitz, S., Buckley, D.N. (2018) Somatosensory rehabilitation for allodynia in CRPS of the upper limb: a cohort study. J Hand Ther, 31(1), 10-19.
List of publications
de Andrade Melo Knaut, S., Hoang, M.A., Bossard, E.K., Chiquito, V.R., Eduarda Mazepa, M., Portela, L.A., Zene, M.V., Packham, T.L., Dyer, J.O., Mermet-Joret, N., Annoni, J.M. & Spicher, C.J. (2024). Static Mechanical Allodynia is a paradoxical painful touch-evoked tactile HYPO-aesthesia: A retrospective analysis of 86 patients with CRPS of the foot. Douleur analg 37(2), 77-86. Doi : 10.1684/dea.2024.0291
Etiévant, F., Terreaux, S. & Spicher, C.J. (2024). INFOGRAPHIC Nb 13: The 36 cutaneous nerve branches of lower extremity n=3676 Aβ axonal lesions of 2270 Neuropathic Pain Patients Somatosens Pain Rehab, 21(1), 22 (one page) Doi : 10.13140/RG.2.2.32351.02721 Available (02/23/2024): www.somatosenspainrehab.com
Hoang, M.A., Etiévant, F., Erling, C.C. & Spicher, C.J. (2024). A Graphic Designer with Spontaneous Neuralgia and Allodynia Treated with the Method of Somatosensory Pain Rehabilitation (SPR) (Original Case Report in Clinical Practice). Somatosens Pain Rehab, 21(4), 115-125. Available (08/26/2024): www.somatosenspainrehab.com
