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Silvia Careddu, MSc PT

Silvia Careddu, MSc PT

Silvia Careddu, MSc PT

ZHAW School of Health Sciences
Institute of Physiotherapy
Katharina-Sulzer-Platz 9
8400 Winterthur

+41 (0) 58 934 42 81
silvia.careddu@zhaw.ch

Work at ZHAW

Position

Head MAS in Interprofessional Pain Management, Lecturer in Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy & Interprofessional Pain Management

Teaching

Experience

  • Physiotherapist at Centre of Pain Medicine
    Swiss Paraplegic-Centre, Nottwil (CH)
    04 / 2019 - 05 / 2024
  • Physiotherapist and scientific collaborator
    Physio und Sport Luzern GmbH, Luzern (CH)
    10 / 2017 - 06 / 2019

Education and Continuing education

Education

  • Master of Science in musculoskeletal Physiotherapy, OMT svomp®
    Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Winterthur (CH)
    09 / 2014 - 07 / 2018
  • Bachelor in Physiotherapy
    College of higher education Claudiana/University of Ferrara, Bozen/Ferrara (I)
    2009 - 2012

Continuing Education

Certificate of Advanced Studies in Higher & Professional Education
Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Winterthur (CH)
2023

Projects

Publications

Books, peer-reviewed

Benz, T., Broecker, M., Careddu, S., Holopainen, R., Jones, Mark. A., Kiesele, J., Klaes, D., Kromer, T. O., Löscher, S., Lüdtke, K., Messner, T., O’Sullivan, P., Pfeiffer, F., Riese, D., Ringel, S., Rucker, A. M. L., & Weber, J. (2025). Hands-off in der Physiotherapie : Schmerzedukation, Kommunikation, Soft Skills und Behandlungsansätze (H. Luomajoki & C. Schwertfellner, eds.). Thieme.

Other publications

Stehrenberger, A., Careddu, S., Degenfellner, J., Pfeiffer, F., Meier, M., Ott, J., Rapp, C., Koponen, M., Luomajoki, H., & Benz, T. (2025, June 26). Effect of pain science education and graded sensorimotor retraining on disability in patients with chronic low back pain : a study protocol of a cluster-randomized clinical trial. 19th International Forum for Back and Neck Pain Research in Primary Care (IBNP Forum), Davos, Switzerland, 24-27 June 2025.

Oral conference contributions and abstracts

Careddu, S., Stehrenberger, A., Benz, T., Luomajoki, H., Pfeiffer, F., & Degenfellner, J. (2025). RESOLVE-Intervention bei chronischen Rückenschmerzen : Protokoll einer cluster-randomisierten Studie [Conference presentation]. Physioscience, 21(S 03), S4. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0045-1812353