Department of Rehabilitation
Academic Medical Center
University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Sicco Bus is a human movement scientist and works currently as a senior investigator and as Head of the Human Performance Laboratory at the Department of Rehabilitation of the Academic Medical Center (AMC) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. In 1998 he obtained a Masters degree in Human Movement Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, with majors in Exercise Physiology and Health Science. After graduation, Sicco joined the Center for Locomotion Studies (CELOS) at Penn State University in Pennsylvania, USA (director: Prof. Peter Cavanagh) as a visiting researcher and performed several studies on the diabetic foot and on the biomechanics of daily life activities in the elderly. His enthusiasm for diabetic foot research was established here. In 2001, Sicco returned to Amsterdam to start as a PhD candidate in the Department of Internal Medicine at the AMC (promotor: Prof. Marcel Levi). Here, he continued his research on the structural and functional aspects of the diabetic neuropathic foot, which resulted in his doctoral dissertation in December 2004 with the title “Foot Deformity in Diabetic Neuropathy: a biomechanical and radiological analysis”. Since November 2003 (and since August 2005 part-time) Sicco also works as a senior investigator and scientific coordinator in the Diabetic Foot Unit of the Department of Surgery at the Twenteborg Hospital in Almelo, where he coordinates several studies on offloading diabetic foot ulcers and new technology for the prevention of foot ulcers. In his current work at the Department of Rehabilitation of the AMC in Amsterdam, Sicco manages the Human Performance Laboratory and supervises research on the biomechanics of the diabetic foot and other neuro-muscular pathologies.
