Following a successful career in neuro-musculoskeletal physiotherapy (both in the NHS and in private practice) which led me to develop a particular interest in helping people with chronic pain, incl. low back pain, I started teaching part time at Northumbria University in 2002. In 2004 I gave up working for the NHS to dedicate time to my PhD and, once I had finished that, to develop my other keen professional interest, hippotherapy (specialist physiotherapy which uses the movement of horses in walk to facilitate movement responses in clients with neuro-motor disorders) which I have been practising since 2009. Since 2006 I have also been involved in the invention and development of a new exercise device designed specifically to activate key muscles responsible for the segmental spinal stability in the lumbo-pelvic area. The exercise device, one application of which is in the (pre-)rehabilitation of people with low back pain, including astronauts, has been the subject of several studies (incl. PhD and MSc) since 2009, and I have been asked to contribute to both ESA Bed-rest Workshops, designed to improve astronaut health, since 2009. As a result, staff at the ESA Crew Medical Support Office in Cologne have been very interested in the use of the device in astronaut rehabilitation, with the result that I am now PI of an ESA funded study which is just about to begin.

Allsop S, Reynolds C, Debuse D, Rumbold P (2014) Real Life Active Gaming Practices of 7-to-11 Year-Old Children. Games for Health Journal, accepted for publication Debuse, Dorothée, Birch, Olivia, St Clair Gibson, Alan and Caplan, Nick (2013) Low impact weight-bearing exercise in an upright posture increases the activation of two key local muscles of the lumbo-pelvic region. Physiotherapy Theory and Practice, 29 (1). pp. 51-60. ISSN 0959-3985 Gibbon, Karl, Debuse, Dorothée and Caplan, Nick (2013) Low impact weight-bearing exercise in an upright posture achieves greater lumbopelvic stability than overground walking. Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies, 17 (4). pp. 462-468. ISSN 1360-8592 (In Press) Debuse, Dorothée and Brace, Hal (2011) Outcome Measures of Activity for Children With Cerebral Palsy. Pediatric Physical Therapy, 23 (3). pp. 221-231. ISSN 0898-5669 Debuse, Dorothée, Gibb, Catherine and Chandler, Colin (2009) Effects of hippotherapy on people with cerebral palsy from the users' perspective: a qualitative study. Physiotherapy Theory and Practice, 25 (3). pp. 174-192. ISSN 0959-3985