André David Gomes

Currently living in Taubaté, São Paulo, he is responsible for the physiotherapy department at Associação Vôlei Taubaté and Taubaté Fut7. He works as a physiotherapist at Vale Beach Club in Tremembé, promoting and disseminating sports recovery in beach volleyball, footvolley, and beach tennis. He worked in Australia as a volleyball coach for The Noorwood Bears Volleyball Club in the South Australia Volleyball League, as a sports coach for the Adelaide Blue Eagles soccer team, and as a remedial massage therapist for Rub Massage from March 2023 to August 2024. He worked as a sports physiotherapist for the New On Project (Prevent Senior) from July 2018 to September 2022. During this period, he participated in national automotive racing events (Stock Car and Porsche Cup), the Brazilian Loterias Caixa Athletics Championship (U-20, adult, and master), the Rio 2022 Pan American Rhythmic and Artistic Gymnastics Championship, the Rio Marathon, and the São Paulo Marathon (2021 and 2022), working as a sports physiotherapist focused on recovery, treatment, and injury prevention. He is a member of the National Society of Sports Physiotherapy and Physical Activity (SONAFE), certified as a Specialist in Sports Physiotherapy by the respective society. He trained as a sports physiotherapist at the Olympic Training and Research Center (COTP-SP), where he supervised sports such as soccer, volleyball, handball, basketball, track and field, swimming, and wrestling. Postgraduate (Lato sensu) and titled specialist in Sports Physiotherapy by UNIFESP at the Sports Traumatology Center (CETE), started in 2017 and finished in 2018, working in the following topics: shoulder surgery; anterior stabilization; Bristow-Latarjet; return to sport; rehabilitation. Graduated in the Physiotherapy course at the Ribeirão Preto School of Medicine of the University of São Paulo (FMRP - USP), started in 2012 and finished on December 2, 2016, with the degree conferred on January 6, 2017. Scientific Initiation student and participant in project discussion groups at the Clinical Research Laboratory of the Hand and Upper Limb (LabMão-USP), under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Marisa de Cássia Registro Fonseca, working mainly in the following topics: activities of daily living; electromyography; kinematics; upper limb; orthosis. Publication of scientific article in the Journal of Physiotherapy and Research Mar 2018, Volume 25 N. 1 Pages 56 - 64. Former scholarship holder of the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) from 10/2015 to 09/2016. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)