CLINICAL RESEARCH UNIT IN REHABILITATION
(2016) 20th European Congress of PHYSICAL and REHABILITATION MEDICINE — Location: Estoril (23.April.2016)
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- Our faculty hospital and medical school are based on the same university campus in Brussels, allowing close and fruitful collaborations between clinicians and researchers. From such collaborative approach, several researches are conducted on three complementary domains. e rst domain of interest is the functional assessment of disabled patients. We developed ICF based Rasch vali- dated questionnaires. For instance, the ABILOCO questionnaire is calibrated and used to assess the locomo- tion abilities of brain injured adult and paediatric patients. Our second domain of interest is the upper and lower limbs movement analysis among healthy subjects and patients. We have shown how stroke disturb the upper limb kinematics and why stroke patients expend so much energy to walk slowly, using quanti ed mo- tion analysis (including the simultaneous assessment of kinematics, kinetics, oxygen consumption and elec- tromyography). Finally, the clinical research in neurorehabilitation constitutes our third domain of interest. For instance, we performed randomized controlled trials showing the e cacy of robotic assisted upper limb rehabilitation among cerebral palsy children, and the e cacy of selective tibial neurotomy for treating spastic equinovarus foot after stroke. Additionally, we regularly participate to international clinical trials leaded by drug companies. ey are currently ve PhD projects leaded by Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation fellows and by physical therapists. eir topics are: self rehabilitation after stroke in Benin; upper limb robotic and serious game as- sisted rehabilitation after brain injury; e ect of a therapeutic exercises programme on gait variability among parkinsonian patients; relationship between physical deconditioning and fatigue among multiple sclerosis patients.
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Lejeune, T., & Stoquart, G. (2016). CLINICAL RESEARCH UNIT IN REHABILITATION. European Journal of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine : a journal of physical medicine and rehabilitation after pathological events, 52(s2), 395. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/54152 (Original work published 2016)