Prof. Ella Been

Head of the Department of Sports Therapy and Chair of the Appointments Committee

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Professor Ella Been, Ph.D. in Anatomy and Associate Professor at Ono Academic College, Faculty of Health Professions. She is the founder and head of the Sports Therapy Program at Ono and serves as an adjunct lecturer in the Department of Anatomy and Anthropology at the Tel Aviv University Faculty of Medicine. She also chairs the Faculty Appointments Committee at the Ono Academic College’s Faculty of Health Professions. Professor Bein is a member of the World Federation of Athletic Training and Therapy (WFATT) and the Israel Association of Sports Therapy and Athletic Training (AT).

Previous Roles: Professor Been completed her studies in physiotherapy in 1990 and began her academic career in 1995 in the Physiotherapy Program at Tel Aviv University. In 2007, she joined the faculty of the Department of Anatomy and Anthropology at Tel Aviv University’s Faculty of Medicine. From 2011 to 2013, she served as the Deputy Head of the Physiotherapy Program at Zefat Academic College. Since 2014, she has held various positions at Ono Academic College.

Publications: Approximately 90 peer-reviewed scientific publications.

Education

Post-Doctoral Fellowship

2010, Depatment of Physiotherapy, Ben Gurion University

Ph.D

2006, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University

B.P.T

1990, in Physiotherapy, Tel Aviv University (with honors)

Expert in Physiotherapy

Teaching Areas

Anatomy, Kinesiology, Research Seminar, Typical and Pathological Sensorimotor Development.

Research interests

Research in the fields of the evolution of upright posture and bipedal locomotion; the relationship between spinal alignment and the development of back and neck pain; interdisciplinary research in balance and posture in collaboration with researchers from the fields of occupational therapy, speech-language pathology, and medicine. Professor Bein was involved in research that identified the oldest known human bone discovered in Israel. The bone, found in the 1960s at the Tel Ovadia site, was identified in 2022 by a team with which she was affiliated as a vertebra of a Homo specimen that lived approximately 1.5 million years ago.

Selected Publications

Been E, and Kalichman L. 2014. Lumbar lordosis. The Spine Journal 14:87-97.
Shefi S, Soudack M, Konen E, and Been E. 2013. Development of the Lumbar Lordotic Curvature in Children From Age 2 to 20 Years. Spine 38(10):E602-E608.
Been E, Gomez A, and Kramer PA. 2012. Lumbar lordosis of extinct hominins. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 147:64–77.
Been E, Li L, Hunter DJ, and Kalichman L. 2011. Geometry of the vertebral bodies and the intervertebral discs in lumbar segments adjacent to spondylolysis and spondylolisthesis: pilot study. European Spine Journal 20(7):1159-1165.
Been E, Peleg S, Marom A, and Barash A. 2010. Morphology and Function of the Lumbar Spine of the Kebara 2 Neandertal. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 142(4):549-557.
, Gómez-Olivencia A., Kramer P. A. * Lumbar lordosis of extinct hominins. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 147, 64-77 (2012).
hman L. * Lumbar lordosis. The Spine Journal, 14, 87-97 (2014).
fi, S., & Soudack, M. Cervical lordosis: the effect of age and gender. The Spine Journal, 17(6), 880-888 (2017).
ncia A, Barash A, García-Martínez D, Arlegi M, Kramer P, Bastir M, Been E. 3D virtual reconstruction of the Kebara 2 Neandertal thorax. Nature Communications, 9: 4387 (2018).
, E., Gómez-Olivencia, A., & Kramer, P. A. (Eds.). Spinal evolution: morphology, function, and pathology of the spine in hominoid evolution. Springer.‏ (2019).
Barash, A., Belmaker, M., Bastir, M., Soudack, M., O’Brien, H. D., Woodward, H., ... & Been, E. The earliest Pleistocene record of a large-bodied hominin from the Levant supports two out-of-Africa dispersal events. Scientific reports, 12(1), 1721‏ (2022).