Gustavo Plaza-Manzano is a physiotherapy expert in musculoskeletal and invasive manual physiotherapy, myofascial pain and manual physiotherapy. He is a doctor and professor of the Faculty of Nursing, Physiotherapy and Podiatry of the Complutense University of Madrid, where he also directs the Masters in Advanced Manual Physiotherapy. He is a researcher in musculoskeletal physiotherapy at the Health Research Institute of the San Carlos Clinical Hospital in Madrid (IdISSC). He currently combines teaching with clinical and research activity, and his interest focuses on integrating the neuroscience of pain and musculoskeletal dysfunction with the clinical aspects of treatment through musculoskeletal physiotherapy. He has published different scientific articles and book chapters related to these topics.