Bijan Forough, MD
Career
- Iran University of Medical Sciences, Neuromusculoskeletal Research Center (Firoozgar Hospital), Tehran, career 2008-2026. No rank or title byline is machine-verified anywhere in his 73 combined records.
- ORCID education self-record, verbatim: "md. @ iums firouzgar hospital 1992 - 1995" -- a 1992-1995 training entry at IUMS Firouzgar Hospital, cited verbatim and not expanded; ORCID employment self-record: "iums".
- Name spelling: PubMed indexes his career under both "Forough" (4 records, including Study 12) and "Forogh" (69 records) -- one person, unified by the same personal e-mail on both spellings across the whole era, the identical institution line, and a fully intersecting co-author web (25 records with Ahadi, 14 with Ebadi, 13 with Babaei-Ghazani, 4 with Fallah). His institutional e-mail forogh.b@iums.ac.ir (PMIDs 40369655, 38730336) uses the dominant spelling.
Research Work
- Physical medicine and rehabilitation research class: lateral epicondylitis orthosis, TMS/tDCS, acupuncture RCTs, ozone injections, dry needling, PRP, gait and balance, and the history of PM&R in Iran -- a single 73-record class 2008-2026 across both surname spellings.
- ORCID 0000-0002-3718-8719 carries 54 works with 15+ verbatim PubMed-corpus title matches across his career, including carpal tunnel prolotherapy (2022), quadriceps dry needling (2023), rTMS versus tDCS (2021), and extracorporeal shockwave therapy (2021); the ORCID is author-tagged on PMIDs 39750773, 40033634, 37885255, 35848821, and 31735996. A surname-wide ORCID audit found no alternative Bijan candidate: the only other same-name record is an empty shell with 0 works and no affiliations.
- Co-author of Study 12, a randomized placebo-controlled trial in which adding continuous shortwave diathermy to a specific exercise regimen reduced pain and improved function in chronic lateral epicondylitis more than sham diathermy and exercise (50 patients, intention-to-treat analysis, outcomes at baseline, sessions 5 and 10, and 3 months).
Role in Study 12
Co-author of Study 12. See Study 12: Shortwave Diathermy Enhances Recovery in Lateral Epicondylitis (Journal of Bodywork & Movement Therapies, 2020; PMID 31987565).
Identifiers
ORCID: 0000-0002-3718-8719
Relationship statement: King Brand utilized the individual's work in the development of our products and treatments. The study and all the professional's work was independent of King Brand - they did not work for us, nor were they compensated by us - it is truly independent. King Brand has relied on the results of this study, this individual's work, and the work and studies of others in the development of our medical solutions.
Sources
ORCID public record 0000-0002-3718-8719 · PubMed class, dominant spelling (Forogh B) · PubMed class, study spelling (Forough B) · Study 12 on PubMed (PMID 31987565)
Profile verified as of 2026-09-18; annual re-verification scheduled.