Publications by authors named "E Akesson"
Article Synopsis
- The study aimed to evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of home-based rehabilitation for stroke patients using a new tool called DISKO, which combines telerehabilitation and serious gaming focusing on balance improvement.
- The randomized trial involved patients 3-6 months post-stroke, comparing outcomes from 6 weeks of DISKO training at home to conventional therapy, showing significant improvements in balance for the DISKO group despite some technical challenges.
- Results indicate that DISKO is a feasible option for rehabilitation with a good safety record, high participant compliance, and positive user feedback, suggesting the potential for further research with broader participant inclusion.
Objective: To assess the effects of oral screen training in patients with dysphagia post-stroke.
Background: Oral screen training has been identified as an effective method for improving orofacial and oropharyngeal motor functions. However, the evidence supporting a positive transfer effect on swallowing capacity post-primary stroke rehabilitation is still unclear.
Background: Digitally supported home exercise offers the potential to expand accessibility to rehabilitation. However, little is known about how people with Parkinson's disease experience performing home exercise programs using digital delivery.
Objective: To explore and describe how people with Parkinson's disease perceive digital home-based exercise that is not supported in real-time, and how it affected their everyday lives.
Background: Knowledge of health care utilization at the end of life in Parkinson's disease (PD) is sparse. This study aims to investigate end of life health care utilization, characterized by emergency room (ER) visits, receipt of specialized palliative care (SPC), and acute hospital deaths in a Swedish population-based PD cohort.
Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study on deceased patients (≥ 18 years) with a PD diagnosis during their last year of life (n = 922), based on health care-provider data from Region Stockholm´s data warehouse, for the study period 2015-2021.
Background: Parkinson's disease (PD) drastically affects motor and cognitive function, but evidence shows that motor-cognitive training improves disease symptoms. Motor-cognitive training in the home is scarcely investigated and eHealth methods can provide continual support for PD self-management. Feasibility testing is however required.
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