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Attentional deficits and postural alignment: providing new insights in the interaction between cognition and motor function after stroke. University of Antwerp

Nick Gebruers
Movement Antwerp (MOVANT)
Visuospatial neglect (VSN) is a neuropsychological cognitive condition characterized by an attention deficit to one side of the hemispace, often provoked by stroke. Patients with VSN fail to pay attention to the contralesional hemispace. Approximately 25-30% of stroke patients are confronted with VSN of which 40% still show VSN a year post-stroke. Patients with VSN need more time to recover from sensory-motor impairments, do not reach the same ...

Triggering motor memory consolidation in Parkinson’s disease: the effects of complex practice on brain activity during learning of postural and fine motor tasks KU Leuven

Alice Nieuwboer
Research Group for Neurorehabilitation (eNRGy), Research Group for Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is characterized by severe motor symptoms, including postural instability and upper limb dysfunction that are only partially alleviated by medication. PD is also a motor learning disease due to the degradation of the striatum, involved in the consolidation of motor memory. We showed earlier that motor practice improves writing deficits and that there is long term potential when it is applied in a focused manner. ...

Pathophysiological mechanisms and exercise counter measures of hypermetabolism and muscle wasting in severe burns. University of Antwerp

Ulrike Van Daele
Movement Antwerp (MOVANT)
Severe burns cause a cascade of unwanted effects such as an overdrive in metabolism, loss of muscle tissue, and loss of the body's ability to effectively handle glucose as an energy source and an enhanced inflammatory state. Against common belief, these side effects have shown to persist for years, and cause long-term consequences such as a reduced physical fitness and a higher risk of developing diabetes. Despite many research efforts, much of ...

Which exercises to prescribe in patients with subacromial pain? A multi-center randomized controlled trial. University of Antwerp

Filip Struyf
Movement Antwerp (MOVANT)
Shoulder pain is the third most common musculoskeletal disorder, with estimated lifetime prevalence around 10%. The prevalence for daily non-specific shoulder pain in the working population is around 12%, and up to 23% of the workforce seeking professional help with a shoulder related disorder have been sick-listed for at least one week. People with shoulder pain are often disabled to the point where they cannot live a normal life, suffering ...

Structural and functional brain connectivity for executive control over action in aging KU Leuven

Stephan Swinnen
Movement Control & Neuroplasticity Research Group

One hallmark of aging is a motor functioning decline that represents a crucial impediment for healthy and active living. A candidate mechanism for this motor decline in older adults is an agerelated deterioration of higher cognitive (‘executive’) functions and their involvement in motor control. Specifically, older adults have been demonstrated to rely on executive functions to a larger extent than young adults when performing complex motor ...

Development and validation of a screening tool for central sensitisation pain in cancer survivors University of Antwerp

Mira Meeus
Movement Antwerp (MOVANT)
In addition to fatigue, pain is the most common frequent persistent symptom in cancer survivors. Pain following cancer leads to poor quality of life and impaired daily functioning. Identifying the origin or mechanism of the pain is a critical step in clinical decision-making. Awareness on the presence of so called central sensitisation pain in cancer survivors has increased past decades. In this case pain can be explained by enhanced processing ...

Using personalized musculoskeletal simulations based on ultrasound derived muscle-tendon unit parameters to evaluate the effect of interventions in children with cerebral palsy KU Leuven

Friedl De Groote
Human Movement Biomechanics Research Group, Research Group for Neurorehabilitation (eNRGy)

My postdoctoral application builds on the novel 3D ultrasound framework to study muscle and tendon properties (MT) in children with cerebral palsy (CP), developed and validated during my PhD. Assessment of one plantar flexor (medial gastrocnemius) using this framework has led to important new insights on changes in muscle morphology with growth. Yet the relation between altered MT properties and gait impairments in CP, as well as the effect ...

Investigation on a critical time window for gait training in stroke rehabilitation. University of Antwerp

Steven Truijen
Movement Antwerp (MOVANT)
Animal models have shown that motor training is effective only if initiated early after stroke. This activity-induced recovery pattern temporally matches increased gene expression important for neuronal growth and plasticity in the post-stroke brain. It seems that the brain after damage induces a window of enhanced neuroplasticity during which greatest rehabilitation gains can be achieved. In human stroke care, earlier rehabilitation is ...

Predicting outcome of total knee replacement surgery in patients with knee osteoarthritis: a prospective study on the role of phenoptypic characteristics related to osteoarthritis. University of Antwerp

Mira Meeus
Movement Antwerp (MOVANT)
Even though a Total Knee Replacement (TKR) is an effective surgical treatment for end-stage knee osteoarthritis (KOA) and the majority of patients report substantial pain relief and functional improvement following this surgical procedure, literature shows that 20-40% of patients are dissatisfied with the postsurgical outcome.Given the high costs related to TKR surgery and the substantial number of patients who do not meet the level of ...