Projects
Training postural and gait balance control in children with Cerebral Palsy: associations between brain structural metrics and motor behavior KU Leuven
When an injury occurs to the developing brain, as in Cerebral Palsy (CP), children experience deficits in motor control. Poor postural control is a primary deficit in CP with a large impact on a child’s daily life, since it is crucial for gait and, thus, greatly affects the risk of falls. To improve their quality of life, adequate treatment is essential. However, the success of treatment greatly depends on the knowledge of the underlying ...
Compensatory mechanisms for motor control deficits in Parkinson's disease: understanding the relationship between cueing, cognition and underlying brain activity. KU Leuven
Neurological factors challenging bimanual motor control and treatment response in children with unilateral cerebral palsy. KU Leuven
Children with unilateral Cerebral Palsy (uCP) present with many sensorimotor deficits in their impaired arm, compromising effective use in daily life activities. Accurate motor control between both arms is vital in performing bimanual tasks. This proposal is triggered by the need to provide well-targeted treatment plans optimizing bimanual motor control, as such improving the child’s participation in daily life. Yet, bimanual motor control is ...
Training postural and gait balance control in children with Cerebral Palsy: associations between brain structural metrics and motor behavior Ghent University
When an injury occurs to the developing brain, as in Cerebral Palsy (CP), children experience deficits
in motor control. Poor postural control is a primary deficit in CP with a large impact on a child’s daily
life, since it is crucial for gait and, thus, greatly affects the risk of falls. To improve their quality of
life, adequate treatment is essential. However, the success of treatment greatly depends on the
knowledge of ...
Understanding the effect of cortical lateralization on selective motor control of the arm swing during independent walking after stroke. Ghent University
The upper limbs play an essential role for safe and efficient walking in healthy persons and persons post-stroke. Nevertheless, in current post-stroke gait rehabilitation (research) the upper limbs are barely targeted. To address this gap, my project aims to investigate the selective motor control of the upper limbs during walking and the contribution of the cortical activity to the arm swing in independent walkers after stroke. To gain ...
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 ...
A 3D musculoskeletal model of a horse developed with the primary goal of the study of motor control of the fore limbs during locomotion in horses. University of Antwerp
Diagnostics and recovery of motor function in children with traumatic brain injury: neural structure-function relationships regarding motor coordination. KU Leuven
The neural signature of Developmental Coordination Disorder: Towards a better understanding of motor learning impairments using Magnetic Resonance Imaging Ghent University
Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that impairs the acquisition of motor skills and motor coordination and affects 1.8-5.5% individuals worldwide. Since a sufficient level of motor control is needed to participate in daily life activities, it is important to understand the nature of these motor learning deficits in order to develop specific motor training for this target audience. Although several ...