Medical Professional Profile Summaries

Jeff S Coombes, PhD

Role in study: Co-author of Study 1; the study's most senior author (Professor).
Affiliation: Professor, School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences, The University of Queensland; Director of the School.
Note: Fellow of Exercise and Sports Science Australia (ESSA) and Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM).
Full profile: bio-jcoombes.php

Jonathan M Peake, PhD

Role in study: Co-author of Study 1 (final-listed author).
Affiliation: Queensland University of Technology and the Queensland Academy of Sport (SPIKE program), Brisbane.
Note: Long research focus on exercise recovery science, including muscle damage, inflammation, and recovery strategies.
Full profile: bio-jpeake.php

Llion A Roberts, PhD

Role in study: Co-author of Study 1.
Affiliation: Griffith University (Gold Coast), The University of Queensland, and the Queensland Academy of Sport.
Note: Built his publication record around post-exercise recovery physiology, including cold water immersion and muscle recovery.
Full profile: bio-lroberts.php

Arrigo Giombini, MD

Role in study: First author of Study 2.
Affiliation: Department of Movement, Human and Health Sciences, University of Rome "Foro Italico"; specialist in sports medicine (Institute of Sports Medicine and Science, Italian National Olympic Committee / CONI, Rome).
Note: Leading Italian researcher in physical therapies for sports injuries; hyperthermia/diathermy trial line since 1991.
Full profile: bio-agiombini.php

Nicola Maffulli, MD, PhD, FRCS(Orth)

Role in study: Co-author of Study 2 (final-listed, most senior author).
Affiliation: Professor of Sports and Exercise Medicine, Centre for Sports and Exercise Medicine, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London.
Note: One of the most-published orthopaedic surgeons in the world: 2,574 indexed works, over 96,000 citations, h-index 142 (OpenAlex, as of 2026-09-03).
Full profile: bio-nmaffulli.php

Hisashi Naito, PhD

Role in study: Co-author of Study 2 (second-to-last listed).
Affiliation: Graduate School of Health and Sports Science, Juntendo University, Chiba, Japan.
Note: Long research focus on heat stress and skeletal muscle, including heat-shock-protein responses to microwave hyperthermia; 520 indexed works, h-index 44 (OpenAlex, as of 2026-09-03).
Full profile: bio-hnaito.php

Noriko Ichinoseki-Sekine, PhD

Role in study: Co-author of Study 2.
Affiliation: Faculty of Liberal Arts, The Open University of Japan; Juntendo University Graduate School of Health and Sports Science.
Note: Skeletal muscle physiology: heat-shock proteins and heat stress, muscle fiber composition genetics, blood flow restriction training.
Full profile: bio-nichinoseki-sekine.php

Annalisa Di Cesare, MD

Role in study: Co-author of Study 2.
Affiliation: Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Sapienza University of Rome; sports-medicine physiatrist in the CONI Institute of Sports Medicine and Science / Foro Italico orbit.
Note: Hyperthermia/diathermy clinical trials and whole-body vibration training in athletes (co-author web 2001-2016).
Full profile: bio-adicesare.php

Kenneth L. Knight, PhD, ATC, FACSM

Role in study: Co-author of Study 3 (third-listed author).
Affiliation: Athletic training researcher; Brigham Young University affiliation on his 2002-era papers.
Note: Co-author (with David O. Draper) of the textbook "Therapeutic Modalities" (editions 2006-2012).
Full profile: bio-jknight.php

David O. Draper, EdD, ATC, LAT

Role in study: Co-author of Study 3 (second-listed author).
Affiliation: Professor of Athletic Training, Brigham Young University; earned the EdD (1984) from Virginia Tech.
Note: Muscle temperature response to therapeutic ultrasound and diathermy; co-author (with Kenneth L. Knight) of the textbook "Therapeutic Modalities" (editions 2006-2012).
Full profile: bio-adraper.php

Mark D. Ricard, PhD

Role in study: Co-author of Study 3 (final-listed author).
Affiliation: Kinesiology and biomechanics: Brigham Young University (2000-2002), Western Michigan University (circa 2005), The University of Texas at Arlington (2006-present).
Note: Ankle taping and bracing, inversion injuries, electromyography, muscle perfusion; 72 works, h-index 31 (OpenAlex).
Full profile: bio-gricard.php

Trevor C. Chen, PhD

Role in study: First author of Study 4; leads the research group that carried out the far-infrared radiation lamp studies.
Affiliation: Professor, Department of Physical Education, National Taiwan Normal University; leads research on eccentric exercise and muscle damage.
Note: h-index 31, 108 publications, more than 3,200 citations; has co-authored 70 publications with Kazunori Nosaka (OpenAlex, as of 2026-09-04).
Full profile: bio-tchen.php

Kazunori Nosaka, PhD

Role in study: Final-listed author of Study 4.
Affiliation: Professor, Centre for Human Performance, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia; collaborates with the National Taiwan Normal University group on muscle damage protection and recovery.
Note: One of the most-cited researchers on eccentric exercise, muscle damage, and recovery: h-index 81, 574 publications, more than 22,000 citations (OpenAlex, as of 2026-09-04).
Full profile: bio-knosaka.php

Vincent Kam Wai Wong, PhD

Role in study: Corresponding author of Study 5; leader of the Dr. Neher's Biophysics Laboratory group that produced the review.
Affiliation: Professor, State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macao.
Note: 264 publications attracting more than 15,200 citations, with an h-index of 46 (OpenAlex, as of 2026-09-05); published work covers natural-product pharmacology, autophagy, and calcium signaling.
Full profile: bio-vkwong.php

Io Nam Wong, Associate Professor

Role in study: Co-author of Study 5.
Affiliation: Faculty of Medicine, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macao.
Note: 40 publications attracting more than 350 citations, with an h-index of 13 (OpenAlex, as of 2026-09-05); published work covers medical artificial intelligence, dietary polysaccharide immunomodulation, and genome-stability biology.
Full profile: bio-inwong.php

David J. Wyper, PhD

Role in study: Co-author of Study 7.
Affiliation: SINAPSE, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.
Note: Career-long PubMed corpus of 69 records (1969-2016): clinical physics and bio-engineering in Glasgow, then neuro-imaging and SPECT research. PhD, University of Glasgow, 1972.
Full profile: bio-dwyper.php