Accuracy and Reliability of Grip Strength Measurements: A Comparative Device Analysis.

Grip strength is widely used as a surrogate parameter for functional status. The current gold standard, the JAMAR Hydraulic Dynamometer (JAMAR Hydraulic), presents challenges for individuals with painful finger joints or low grip strength. Therefore, the objective of this observational study was to assess comparability across the JAMAR Smart, the Martin Vigorimeter and the gold standard.

The Effect of Teleprehabilitation on Adverse Events After Elective Cardiac Surgery: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

Background: Patients scheduled for cardiac surgery and procedures often present with modifiable risk factors for adverse perioperative outcomes. Prehabilitation has shown potential to enhance mental and physical fitness; however, its effect on clinical cardiovascular endpoints in this population has not been studied.

Objectives: The current trial was designed to evaluate the effect of a personalized multimodal teleprehabilitation on the incidence of composite endpoint on major adverse cardiovascular events in patients scheduled for elective cardiac surgery.

Effectiveness of Hospital Fit on Physical Activity in Hospitalized Patients: A Stepped-Wedge Cluster-Randomized Trial and Process Evaluation.

This study investigates the effectiveness of using Hospital Fit as part of usual care physiotherapy on the physical activity (PA) behavior of hospitalized patients compared to patients who received physiotherapy before implementation of Hospital Fit. In addition, a process evaluation is conducted. A prospective, multi-center, mixed-methods stepped wedge cluster randomized trial was performed at the cardiology and medical oncology departments of two Dutch university medical centers.

Satisfactory adherence to the Dutch physical therapy guideline for patients with a total knee arthroplasty. A survey study involving 103 specialised physical therapists.

Objective: To explore and gain more insight into the usual preoperative and postoperative physical therapy (PT) treatment of patients with a total knee arthroplasty (TKA) among Dutch physical therapists experienced with TKA rehabilitation. Secondly, to evaluate physical therapists' adherence to guideline recommendations for postoperative rehabilitation.

Methods: In this cross-sectional study, physical therapists working in primary care within a designated Dutch hospital's catchment area were surveyed online.

Exercise- and education-based prehabilitation before total knee arthroplasty: a pilot study.

Objective: To determine the feasibility and estimates of effects of a supervised exercise- and education-based prehabilitation programme aiming to improve knee functioning compared with usual care in patients awaiting total knee arthroplasty.

Design: A randomized controlled pilot study.

Subjects: Patients receiving primary, unilateral total knee arthroplasty.

The MISLI-Drive, a modular sterilizable robotic driver for steerable laparoscopic instruments.

Based on the success of the former "Shaft-Actuated, Tip-Articulated" SATA-Drive, a prototype robotic instrument driver for modular, steerable, laparoscopic instruments, a new driver is designed and tested to improve previously lacking features concerning cleanability, instrument adaptation, practical application and control. The design of the driver engages these issues with a modular design aimed at re-use of both the instrument and the driver, for which a set of design requirements are established. A new modular design has been developed to improve cleanability through separation of the electro-motors and the instrument mechanism which clutches the instrument.

Dataset of 3D gait analysis in typically developing children walking at three different speeds on an instrumented treadmill in virtual reality.

In this article, gait data of typically developing (TD) children (24 boys/31 girls, mean (95% confidence interval) age 9.38 (8.51 - 10.

Comparison of sagittal plane gait characteristics between the overground and treadmill approach for gait analysis in typically developing children.

Background: Instrumented treadmills have become more mainstream in clinical assessment of gait disorders in children, and are increasingly being applied as an alternative to overground gait analysis. Both approaches differ in multiple elements of set-up (, overground versus treadmill, Pug-in Gait versus Human Body Model-II), workflow (, limited amount of steps versus many successive steps) and post-processing of data (, different filter techniques). These individual elements have shown to affect gait.

SATA-LRS: A modular and novel steerable hand-held laparoscopic instrument platform for low-resource settings.

Background: Hospitals in low resource settings (LRS) can benefit from modern laparoscopic methodologies. However, cleaning, maintenance and costs requirements play a stronger role while training and technology are less available. Steerable laparoscopic instruments have additional requirements in these settings and need extra identified adaptations in their design.

Corrigendum to: Personalized teleprehabilitation in elective cardiac surgery: a study protocol of the Digital Cardiac Counselling randomized controlled trial.

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Personalized teleprehabilitation in elective cardiac surgery: a study protocol of the Digital Cardiac Counselling randomized controlled trial.

Aims: Previous research has shown the possibility to use the pre-operative period to improve a patient's tolerance for surgery. However, there is limited experience with prehabilitation in cardiac surgery. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of a comprehensive personalized teleprehabilitation programme on major adverse cardiac events (MACE) in patients scheduled for elective cardiac surgery.

Physiotherapists' clinical use and acceptance of a telemonitoring platform during anterior cruciate ligament rehabilitation: a prospective clinical study.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to assess physiotherapists' clinical use and acceptance of a novel telemonitoring platform to facilitate the recording of measurements during rehabilitation of patients following anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction. Additionally, suggestions for platform improvement were explored.

Methods: Physiotherapists from seven Dutch private physiotherapy practices participated in the study.

Range of motion of body segments is larger during the maximal instep kick than during the submaximal kick in experienced football players.

Background: Football players with groin injury refrain from maximal kicking. Previous groin injury is related to decreased hip range of motion (ROM). Information on ROM differences between maximal and submaximal kicking within players is lacking.

Timing characteristics of body segments during the maximal instep kick in experienced football players.

Background: The first aim of this study was to describe duration and relative timing of the phases of the maximal instep kick. The second aim was to describe the concurrence of maximal range of motion, maximal angular acceleration, maximal angular deceleration and maximal angular velocity of body segments with four key points.

Methods: Twenty experienced football players performed three maximal instep kicks.

Effectiveness of prolonged use of continuous passive motion (CPM), as an adjunct to physiotherapy, after total knee arthroplasty.

Background: Adequate and intensive rehabilitation is an important requirement for successful total knee arthroplasty. Although research suggests that Continuous Passive Motion (CPM) should be implemented in the first rehabilitation phase after surgery, there is substantial debate about the duration of each session and the total period of CPM application. A Cochrane review on this topic concluded that short-term use of CPM leads to greater short-term range of motion.

Effectiveness of exercise therapy: a best-evidence summary of systematic reviews.

The purpose of this project was to summarise the available evidence on the effectiveness of exercise therapy for patients with disorders of the musculoskeletal, nervous, respiratory, and cardiovascular systems. Systematic reviews were identified by means of a comprehensive search strategy in 11 bibliographic databases (08/2002), in combination with reference tracking. Reviews that included (i) at least one randomised controlled trial investigating the effectiveness of exercise therapy, (ii) clinically relevant outcome measures, and (iii) full text written in English, German or Dutch, were selected by two reviewers.

Low-level laser therapy in ankle sprains: a randomized clinical trial.

Objective: To test the efficacy of low-level laser therapy on lateral ankle sprains as an addition to a standardized treatment regimen, a trial was conducted in which high-dose laser (5J/cm2), low-dose laser (0.5J/cm2), and placebo laser therapy (0J/cm2) at skin level were compared.

Design: Randomized, double-blind, controlled clinical trial with a follow-up of 1 year.

The prognosis of ankle sprains.

We developed a new diagnostic tool for predicting the severity of ankle sprains just after injury. Since hard data obtained by diagnostic imaging techniques are still imperfect, we decided to use data from individual medical history and signs and symptoms that are part of the admission routine. During a three month-period data were collected on thirty-five patients with lateral ankle sprains who visited the first aid department of the University Hospital of Maastricht.