Objective Vulnerability among pregnant women is an important and complex theme in the everyday practice of midwives. Exchanging knowledge and best practices about vulnerability between midwives in Europe can contribute to improving the knowledge and skills of midwives and as a result improve the care …

This study explores how 33 student teachers’ reflections during 106 ‘bumpy moments’ while in an international student teaching internship reveal their professional beliefs, and how the moments make the student teachers reflect upon their subjective educational theories. Student teachers described four …

Background: Research on maternity care often focuses on factors that prevent good communication and collaboration and rarely includes important stakeholders – parents – as co-researchers. To understand how professionals and parents in Dutch maternity care accomplish constructive communication and collaboration, …

Designing wearable technology to make physical activity an integral and routine part of people’s everyday life is a challenge, requiring expertise from different disciplines. COMMONS, a research prototype, is a serious game designed to facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration early in the design process. …

Purpose:Chronic spasticity poses a major burden on patients after stroke. Intramuscular botulinum toxin injections constitute an important part of the treatment for patients suffering from troublesome focal spasticity. This study explores the experienced consequences of chronic spasticity amongst patients …

Background: A description of the complexity of the process of self-management and the way stroke survivors give meaning to their process of self-management post-stroke is lacking. This study explores how stroke survivors managed their lives, gave meaning to their self-management post-stroke and how this …

Abstract Background: Many countries in Europe have implemented managed competition and patient choice during the last decade. With the introduction of managed competition, health insurers also became an important stakeholder. They purchase services on behalf of their customers and are allowed to contract …

Purpose: To gain insight into determinants of physical activity in wheelchair users with spinal cord injury or lower limb amputation, from the perspective of both wheelchair users and rehabilitation professionals.  Methods: Seven focus groups were conducted: five with wheelchair users (n = 25) and two …

In everyday life, non-linear causal relationships can be investigated excellently and that is precisely why applied science appeals to me. Practice is leading in applied science. In the context of psychopathology, this means that we do not only look at general knowledge that can be derived from a large …

Paul Wagstaff Commemorative Lecture 2019Prof. dr. Hans HobbelenHanze University of Applied Sciences Groningen, the NetherlandsPhysiotherapy and FrailtyFor a physiotherapist it can be difficult to use the term frailty in relation to the physical condition of a patient. We should focus on improvement of …