Publications by authors named "E Franzen"
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- 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.
Background: Postural instability is considered a late complication of Parkinson's disease (PD). However, growing evidence shows that balance and gait problems may occur early in the disease.
Objective: To describe balance, gait, and falls/near falls in persons with newly diagnosed, untreated PD ("de novo"), and to compare this with persons with mild-moderate PD (Later PD).
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: The congruence or discordance between actual and perceived balance ability has been proposed to be linked to functional outcomes such as falls. However, gaps remain in our ability to quantify discordance, and its relationship to relevant outcomes.
Objective: To investigate a novel quantification of concordance/discordance between balance performance and perception and determine the relationship to falls among people with Parkinson's disease (PwPD).
Background: Evaluations of oral vancomycin prophylaxis (OVP) against have been reported in stem cell transplant populations with short follow-up periods. The longest known duration of standardized follow-up post-OVP is 90 days within an allogeneic stem cell transplant population. In 2017, we implemented OVP 125 mg twice daily in autologous stem cell transplant (ASCT) recipients beginning the day of admission and continued until the day of discharge.
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