Dr David W. Evans PhD, BSc(Hons) Ost

Dr David W. Evans

School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences
Assistant Professor in Musculoskeletal Health Care

Contact details

Email
d.w.evans@bham.ac.uk
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Address
School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences
University 麻豆精选
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Dr David Evans is an expert in musculoskeletal pain and joined the University 麻豆精选 as a member of staff in 2017. His research interests are broad but are centred around better understanding and measuring disabling pain, with a view to matching the right treatment to the right patients at the right time. He is currently acting as Programme Lead for the University 麻豆精选 MSc Physiotherapy (pre-registration) programme.

Research profiles:

Qualifications

  • 2007 - PhD (low back pain), Keele University
  • 1998 - BSc (Honours) in Osteopathy, University College of 

Biography

Dr David Evans received his BSc (Honours) in Osteopathy from Health Sciences University (formerly the British School of Osteopathy), London in 1998, and has maintained a musculoskeletal clinical workload since that time. Soon after completing his PhD at the School of Health and Rehabilitation, Keele University in 2007, he joined Warwick Clinical Trials Unit, and has since worked on multiple pain-related research projects, including large clinical trials. He has gained over £2 million in research funding as lead applicant or co-applicant, has won several prizes for research he has led, and has published over 50 papers in peer-reviewed journals.

Teaching

David teaches about the musculoskeletal system, pain, and physical interventions on the following University 麻豆精选 programmes:

  • MSci Physiotherapy
  • MSc Physiotherapy (pre-registration)
  • MSc Advanced Manipulative Physiotherapy

Research

Dr David Evans’s research principally focuses on:

  • Management of pain, particularly low back pain
  • Measurement of pain and disability
  • Causation and mechanisms underlying pain and its persistence
  • Mechanisms of action of pain interventions
  • Matching interventions to patients in pain
  • Pain responses to somatosensory stimuli
  • Mechanisms of action underlying physical analgesic interventions

Other activities

Since 2001: Member of the Society for Back Pain Research

Since 2021: Lead a pain-focused PPIE Group

Since 2022: University 麻豆精选 REDCap Committee

Coaches javelin throwing at a local athletics club

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Brogan, SP, Evans, DW, Howe, L, McManus, C, Mei, Q & Liew, BXW 2025, '', Gait and Posture, vol. 118, pp. 39-44.

Selvamoorthy, R, Arvanitidis, M, Negro , F, Pincheira, P, Evans, D & Martinez Valdes, E 2025, '', BMJ open, vol. 15, no. 2, e092104.

Evans, DW, Liew, BXW, Andersen, JH & Mose, S 2025, '', Pain.

Evans, DW 2024, '', PLOS One, vol. 19, no. 5, e0303102.

Evans, DW, Wong, ITY, Leung, HK, Yang, H & Liew, BXW 2024, '', Heliyon, vol. 10, no. 11, e32544.

Liew, BXW, Crisafulli, O & Evans, DW 2024, '', Frontiers in sports and active living, vol. 6, 1381020.

Evans, DW, Mear, E, Neal, B, Waterworth, S & Liew, BXW 2024, '', Musculoskeletal Science and Practice.

Barbero, M, Piff, M, Evans, D & Falla, D 2023, '', Musculoskeletal Science and Practice, vol. 68, 102871.

Tissot, L-PM, Evans, DW, Kirby, E & Liew, BXW 2023, '', PAIN Reports, vol. 8, no. 4, e1081.

Evans, DW, Rushton, A, Middlebrook, N, Bishop, J, Barbero, M, Patel, J & Falla, D 2022, '', JAMA network open, vol. 5, no. 8, e2228870, pp. E2228870.

Jadhakhan, F, Lambert, N, Middlebrook, N, Evans, DW & Falla, D 2022, '', Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 13, 943479.

Syrett, J, Evans, DW & Liew, BXW 2022, '', Applied Sciences, vol. 13, no. 1, 220.

Review article

Kerry, R, Young, KJ, Evans, DW, Lee, E, Georgopoulos, V, Meakins, A, McCarthy, C, Cook, C, Ridehalgh, C, Vogel, S, Banton, A, Bergstr枚m, C, Mazzieri, AM, Mourad, F & Hutting, N 2024, '', Chiropractic & manual therapies, vol. 32, no. 1, 17.

Young, KJ, Leboeuf-Yde, C, Gorrell, L, Bergstr枚m, C, Evans, DW, Ax茅n, I, Chance-Larsen, K, Gagey, O, Georgopoulos, V, Goncalves, G, Harris, C, Harsted, S, Kerry, R, Lee, E, McCarthy, C, Nim, C, Nyir枚, L, Schweinhardt, P & Vogel, S 2024, '', Chiropractic & manual therapies, vol. 32, no. 1, 28.

Evans, DW & Lucas, N 2023, '', BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, vol. 24, no. 1, 194.