Kato Everaert

Kato Everaert is a PhD researcher at the University of Antwerp for the Department of Rehabilitation Science and Physiotherapy. Her research focusses on elucidation of psychological and social risk factors for low back pain in dancers. Kato received her Bachelor and Master degree as a physiotherapist at the University of Antwerp. She wrote her master thesis about injuries in young dancers and won the price of “Best Master Thesis” in the department Rehabilitation Science and Physiotherapy. Kato is since 2019 a member of HeArts (healthcare for Artists), a collaboration between the University of Antwerp and the University Hospital Antwerp. She works together with ARIA (Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts) to gain more insights of the social factors related to low back pain in dancers.