Arrigo Giombini, MD
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Career Timeline (Verified)
- Specialist in sports medicine, Institute of Sports Medicine and Science, Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI), Rome - his affiliation on Study 2 itself and on PMID 11914985 ("Institute of Sport Science, Italian National Olympic Committee, Rome, Italy").
- Earliest PubMed papers 1991-1997: radiology of athletic shoulder injuries with Dragoni and Rossi (PMIDs 1857787, 7643588, 9509826), Institute of Sports Medicine and Science / CONI, Rome.
- From the early 2000s through at least 2023: Department of Movement, Human and Health Sciences, University of Rome "Foro Italico" (Centre for Exercise Science and Sports Medicine), Rome - affiliation strings on PMIDs 37486253 (2023), 37092377 (2023), 40869524 (2025).
- Concurrent long association with Universita Campus Bio-Medico di Roma (Department of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery / Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine) and Villa Stuart Sport Clinic, FIFA Medical Centre of Excellence, Rome (PMIDs 37486253, 37092377).
- Caveat: his exact medical-degree year and current precise title at Foro Italico are not stated in machine-fetchable sources - unverified - omitted.
Achievements and Standing (Verified)
- Leading Italian researcher in physical therapies for sports injuries. His hyperthermia/diathermy line of work - the same line as this study - spans his own randomised controlled trials: hyperthermia at 434 MHz in overuse sport tendinopathies (PMID 11914985, Int J Sports Med 2002); supraspinatus tendinopathy RCT with Safran and Maffulli (PMID 16636345, Am J Sports Med 2006); knee osteoarthritis localized hyperthermia RCT (PMID 21161171, KSSTA 2011); calcific tendinopathy of the rotator cuff (PMID 18608369, Disabil Rehabil 2008); plus muscle-temperature physics work with the Juntendo group (PMIDs 17261552, 24137088).
- Career span 1991-2025 (34 years indexed); h-index 26 with 2,128 citations (OpenAlex, as of 2026-09-03).
- Active through 2025: return-to-sport after ACL reconstruction narrative (PMID 40869524, J Clin Med 2025).
Role in Study 2
First author of Study 2. See Study 2: Hyperthermia Induced by Microwave Diathermy (British Medical Bulletin, 2007).
Sources
OpenAlex author record · PubMed author corpus · Study 2 on PubMed (PMID 17942453)
Profile verified as of 2026-09-03; annual re-verification scheduled. Every statement is traceable to the sources above; facts that could not be verified are omitted.