Projects
Is a work strategy for reducing child poverty amongst disabled children effective or a shot misfired? An empirical exploration of child poverty, childhood disability and the work-care nexus in Flanders. University of Antwerp
Disability and the Great War: the re-education of disabled soldiers in Belgium, 1914-1940. KU Leuven
Disability in labour law. Legal research into the reintegration of disabled employees on the labour market. KU Leuven
Motor control therapy in haemodynamic, structural and activation -based phenotypes for people with non-specific low back pain. KU Leuven
Low back pain (LBP) is very prevalent, affecting more than 510 million people worldwide. Moreover, LBP is the leading cause of years lived with disability, and it is responsible for major socio-economic costs. In most people, LBP is non-specific, meaning that a pathological cause, such as trauma, cannot be determined. Since the underlying mechanisms of non-specific LBP remain poorly understood, it is a major challenge to provide personalized ...
Weight Loss Intervention in Overweight/Obese People Suffering from Chronic Low Back Pain: an International Multi-center Randomized Controlled Trial (WEAVE) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
disability. The most severe and debilitated CLBP patients often have
comorbidities such as overweight and obesity. Despite the growing
body of scientific literature pointing towards the close interaction
between overweight/obesity and CLBP, few treatment programs for
people with ...
WALKING WITH IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL REALITY: How does ‘optic flow’, ‘performance feedback’ and ‘competition’ influence the gait pattern in people post-stroke? Vrije Universiteit Brussel
In recent years, a new tool emerged in gait rehabilitation: the use of virtual reality (VR). Despite the fact that VR in combination with gait ...
Conceptualising the differing body as disability-and-possability in dance through collaborative body-centred research methodologies Ghent University
Dance has been traditionally linked to idealised bodies (beautiful, agile, malleable, …). A stream of thought and practice starting from possibility rather than lack offered by non-normative bodies is carving new paths in dance and confuses scripts that prescribe how bodies can/should move, appear, connect, be recognised as human. I study how encounters through dance affect and are affected by (the experience of) differing bodies. Central are ...
The eyes of the mind. Architecture and mental disability. KU Leuven
Prevalence, characteristics and impact of auditory and vestibular deficits in individuals with an intellectual disability. Ghent University
Intellectual disability (ID) is defined as “ condition characterized by significant limitations in
intellectual functioning and adaptive behaviour, originating during the developmental period” The
ID population has a higher prevalence of ear and hearing problems compared to the general
population, but existing literature is limited to national studies or subgroups of the highly
heterogeneous ID ...