Wolfgang Laube is a specialist in sports medicine, physiology, and rehabilitation medicine. He completed his PhD in 1990 on the topic of neurovegetative regulation and muscle fatigue at the Humboldt University of Berlin. He is intensively involved with the topics of the sensorimotor system, the resilience of the musculoskeletal system, the effects of training, the integration of sensorimotor function and pain, and lack of exercise as a cause of chronic degenerative diseases, with the primary goal of active prevention and treatment. Several textbooks on these topics he has been published by Thieme and Springer. He is a lecturer at the University of Krems and a visiting scholar at the Martin Luther University of Halle/S.