Wirz, Markus

Markus Wirz completed his training as a physiotherapist at the University Hospital of Zurich in 1990. He received a Master’s in Physiotherapy Science at the University of Maastricht/NL. Markus Wirz is the head of the physiotherapy department at the Spinal Cord Injury Centre at the Balgrist University Hospital in Zurich. He is also involved in various research projects focusing on rehabilitative assessments and evaluating physiotherapeutic interventions e.g., the locomotor training after spinal cord injury. Furthermore, Markus Wirz is a lecturer at the University of Applied Science (zhaw) in Winterthur.

• Wirz M, Bastiaenen C, deBie R, Dietz V. Effectiveness of Automated Locomotor Training in Patients with Acute Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury: A Randomized Controlled Multicenter Trial.BMC Neurol. 2011 May 27;11:60. (IF 2010: 2.797)
• Kloter E, Wirz M, Dietz V. Locomotion in stroke subjects: interactions between unaffected and affected sides. Brain. 2011 Mar;134(Pt 3):721-31. (IF 2010: 9.232)
• Wirz M, Zörner B, Rupp R, Dietz V.Outcome after incomplete spinal cord injury: central cord versus Brown-Sequard syndrome. Spinal Cord. 2010 May;48(5):407-14. (IF: 1.826)
• Wirz M, Müller R, Bastiaenen C.Falls in persons with spinal cord injury: validity and reliability of the Berg Balance Scale. Neurorehabil Neural Repair. 2010 Jan;24(1):70-7. (IF: 3.772)