Dr. Hadas Ofek (BPT, MSc.PT, PhD)
Dr. Hadas Ofek is a Neuro-physiotherapist with 24 years of clinical experience; Clinical instructor; with prior management positions as head PT in stroke, SCI and TBI units at Lowenstein rehabilitation center.
Hadas is a lecturer in the Physiotherapy department, and is involved both in teaching undergraduate PT and in research. Her research fields include Sensory Rehabilitation in subjects with acquired neurologic disorders (assessment and treatment) and central neuropathic pain (characterization and sensory treatment). She presented her research internationally at WCPT Geneva 2019; ISPRM Paris 2018; INPA London 2016; ISPRM TLV 2016 (workshop), ISPRM Sao Paolo 2005, NeuPSIG Madrid 2004 and in peer reviewed journals.
In addition, Hadas works at a private clinic in northern Israel and teaches Sensory Rehabilitation postgraduate courses for PT/ OT clinicians and a rehabilitation for family doctors (MD) course at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
Selected articles:
- Ofek H, Defrin R. The characteristics of chronic central pain after traumatic brain injury, Pain 2007; 131, 330 – 340
- Ofek H, Alperin M, Tsipi Knoll, Daphna Livne, Yocheved Laufer. Assessment of texture discrimination ability at the sole of the foot in subjects with chronic stroke compared with young and elderly subjects with no neurological deficits: a reliability and validity study, Disability and Rehabilitation 2018; 40(16), 1960-1966
- Ofek H, Alperin M Laufer Y. Lower Extremity Position Test: A Simple Quantitative Proprioception Assessment, Biomedical Journal of Scientific & Technical Research 2019; 12(5).
- Ofek H, Alperin M Laufer Y. Lower Extremity Position Test: A new clinical quantitative assessment tool of proprioception post stroke. Neurorehabilitation 2019; 44(4), 479-484.
