Rehabilitation after an accident in which an arm or hand is paralyzed, is a long process. Stimulate the brain during this process is important to improve recovery. A common therapy to help patients, is mirror therapy. Originally designed for people with phantom limb pain it activates mirror neurons to …

Mirror therapy is a common therapy to help patients recover after an accident in which an arm or hand is paralyzed. It activates mirror neurons and fools the brain into perceiving the paralyzed arm or hand is still moving. This stimulates the brain which is an important aspect to improve recovery. A …

Wereldwijd vinden jaarlijks zes tot 31 beenamputaties plaats per 100.000 mensen, in de toekomst zal dit naar alle waarschijnlijkheid toenemen. Het uithoudingsvermogen is een belangrijke indicator of mensen met een amputatie uiteindelijk met een prothese gaan lopen, omdat het lopen met een prothese meer …

De centrale doelstelling van deze bachelorthesis is om inzicht te krijgen in de meningen van verpleegkundigen omtrent Comfort Rounding en de verpleegkundige randvoorwaarden, waardoor een advies kan worden gegeven om Comfort Rounding mogelijk te laten implementeren op de verpleegafdelingen.

Cerebral palsy is the most common motor disability in early childhood with 29% of patients suffering from hemiplegic Cerebral Palsy. Constraint-induced movement therapy is a proven unimanual intervention to improve upper limb function focusing on the affected side while hand-arm bimanual intensive therapy …

Kinderarmoede en de kansenongelijkheid die daarbij hoort, staan de laatste tijd volop in de aandacht, mede als gevolg van de televisieserie 'Klassen '. Bij kinderarmoede denken we vaak aan een grootstedelijke omgeving. Terecht, want in de grote steden groeien relatief veel kinderen in armoede op en …

Background: Neck and shoulder complaints are common in primary care physiotherapy. These patients experience pain and disability, resulting in high societal costs due to, for example, healthcare use and work absence. Content and intensity of physiotherapy care can be matched to a patient’s risk of persistent …

Dutch industrial manufacturers are confronted a new and promising industrial robot: the collaborative robot (cobot). These small robotic arms are revolutionary as they allow direct and safe interaction with production workers for the very first time. The direct interaction between production worker and …

BACKGROUND: Neck and shoulder complaints are common in primary care physiotherapy. These patients experience pain and disability, resulting in high societal costs due to, for example, healthcare use and work absence. Content and intensity of physiotherapy care can be matched to a patient's risk of persistent …

BACKGROUND: We recently developed a model of stratified exercise therapy, consisting of (i) a stratification algorithm allocating patients with knee osteoarthritis (OA) into one of the three subgroups ('high muscle strength subgroup' representing a post-traumatic phenotype, 'low muscle strength subgroup' …