Giannis Stathas is a Senior Physiotherapist and specializes in sports injuries with a specialization in therapeutic exercise and functional rehabilitation. He is involved in the rehabilitation of professional athletes and has served as a physiotherapist in championship-level teams (football, basketball, handball). Until the summer of 2021, he served as a physiotherapist at AEK FC for 6 years, from 2022 until September 2025, he served as head of physiotherapy and rehabilitation at OFI 1925. In November 2025, he founded sportsmed Concept-Leading rehabilitation, a sports injury clinic in Heraklion, Crete.
He is a graduate of the School of Health and Welfare Sciences of the Athens Technical University in 2009, conducting a research study on the differences in static and dynamic balance between football and basketball athletes. He holds a Master's Degree in "Therapeutic Exercise" from the School of Health Rehabilitation Sciences of the University of Patras. His master's thesis was on functional rehabilitation entitled "Multivariate evaluation of the effect of two functional rehabilitation programs for musculoskeletal injuries in professional football players on their time to return to full competitive activity. A prospective study." He is a member of the Panhellenic Association of Physiotherapists (PAPH) and has undergone further training in sports physiotherapy as an exercise specialist (Sports physiotherapy Level 1, exercise specialist) through the program of the International Federation of Sports Physiotherapists (IFSPT). He has completed further training in several areas regarding physiotherapy intervention.

Indicatively:

• Manual therapy
• Indiba active sports specialist, International
• Medical Flossing
• Blood Flow Restriction (BFR) training
• Isokinetic – Assessment to Treatment
• Compex in rehabilitation
• Diamagnetic pump
• Kinesio taping – Evaluation and Treatment

In addition, he has been trained remotely in rehabilitation programs from the University of Barcelona through the Βarca innovation hub:

• Training for Team Sports
• Strengthening: From rehabilitation to performance

He holds the FIFA diploma in football medicine-FIFA and the Acute Intervention in Sports for Physiotherapists degree.

He is a member of the Hellenic Scientific Society of Physiotherapy (HSPH) and has participated in numerous seminars and conferences in Greece and abroad, such as:

• Barca Sports Conference (2019)
• Football Medicine Strategies for player care International conference on sports rehabilitation and Traumatology, FIFA (2015)
• 4th Interdisciplinary Conference of Physiotherapy students – Presentation of research work (2009).

He has also served as a member of organizing committees for conferences:

• Member of organizing Committee 7th ECOSEP conference titled: 'Sports medicine and Science –facts for the Future' (2021)
• Member of organizing committee of the 1st and 2nd conference of sports injuries, in AEK FC (2018,2019)

At the same time, as a speaker, he has presented important topics on functional rehabilitation in sports injuries:

• President-facilitator of the round table titled "Injuries in football: the late (?) phase of rehabilitation" - Speakers from Barcelona FC, Paris-Saint Germain and PSV Eindhoven (2021)
• Presentation ACL rehab in AEK FC in the 2nd conference of sports injuries of AEK FC (2019);

Articles:

• • All rehab should be on-field rehab: Testing the On FI.RE framework
  • Effectiveness of an On-Field Rehabilitation framework for return to sports in injured male professional football players: a single-blinded, prospective, randomized controlled trial
  • From Injury to Impact: Optimizing Return-to-Play Outcomes and Reinjury Prevention via Four-Pillar Rehabilitation Strategy in Elite Football—A Clinical Study in a Sports Scenario