Publications by authors named "Lise Kronborg Poulsen"

Purpose: Subacromial Pain Syndrome (SAPS) is a common persistent pain condition. Exercise-based care is first-line recommendation, but an insufficient exercise dose hampers effectiveness. This study explores individual and contextual barriers and facilitators for delivery of and adherence to exercise-based care in people with SAPS.

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Fall-related hip fracture (HF) is a frequent trauma in Scandinavia with a yearly incidence of 8,000 among ≥65-year-old citizens in Denmark. The rising incidence and global predictions are alarming since a HF is a major, and potentially fatal, trauma to the citizen, requiring acute surgery, a multimodal approach and post-operative crosssectoral rehabilitation. However, continuity of the rehabilitation program is frequently interrupted in the transition between sectors, compromising optimal recovery of frail citizens.

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Introduction: Older medical patients (>65 years) represent 54% of the admissions to Danish medical and emergency departments. Acute admissions and bed-rest during hospitalisation are independent risk factors for death and dependency in older patients. Even short hospitalisations are associated with increased dependency in activities of daily living after discharge.

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The short- and long-term benefits of post-discharge physiotherapy regimens after breast cancer surgery are debatable. A national survey in Denmark performed at hospitals and municipal rehabilitation clinics showed considerable variability in post-breast surgery rehabilitation regimens. As hospital stay duration has decreased substantially, the need for post-discharge physiotherapy may also have changed.

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