Dr. Ken Olson is a private practitioner in DeKalb, Illinois and adjunct faculty at Northern Illinois University. He is a Past-President of the International Federation of Orthopaedic Manipulative Physical Therapists (IFOMPT) and the American Academy of Orthopaedic Manual Physical Therapists (AAOMPT). He is also past-chairperson of the AAOMPT Practice Affairs committee and the APTA Manipulation Workgroup and a member of the IFOMPT/IOPTP Taskforce on Pediatric Manipulation. He has lectured internationally on topics related to advocacy and clinical reasoning for OMPT examination and management of spine and temporomandibular disorders and is author of the textbook Manual Physical Therapy of the Spine 3d ed. Elsevier, 2022.