Publications by authors named "Margaretha van Dijk"
Article Synopsis
- Accurate assessment of physical activity in hospitalized geriatric rehabilitation patients can be challenging due to slow walking speeds and reliance on walking aids; this study aimed to validate the MOX activity monitor's effectiveness in identifying different activity levels such as sedentary, standing, and dynamic movements.
- The study involved 20 participants over the age of 70 who used walking aids; the MOX monitor was tested for one week, and activities were filmed to evaluate its classification accuracy, with results showing minimal error rates across all activities.
- The findings concluded that the MOX activity monitor is not only highly accurate but also easy to use, indicating its potential as a practical tool for assessing physical activity in this specific patient population.
Background: Regaining independent living can be challenging in patients undergoing inpatient geriatric rehabilitation. Given the paucity of evidence-based physiotherapy programs for this particular heterogeneous group, the Geriatric Activation Program Pellenberg (GAPP) was developed.
Purpose: Investigate the evolution of functional performance, and predict detectable changes throughout 4 weeks of GAPP.
Background And Purpose: Regaining functional independence and independent living is challenging in hospitalized geriatric patients. Different from community dwelling and institutionalized older people, geriatric patients on rehabilitation wards generally receive more frequent and structured physiotherapy with the primary aim to discharge them to their home or place of residence. There is a paucity of evidence concerning the structure and components of physiotherapy programs to improve functional performance in this particular group.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Impaired sitting balance is common in persons with stroke, affecting postural control in different directions. However, studies seldomly investigate sitting balance in severely affected non-ambulatory persons with stroke and precise assessment including the diagonal directions are scarce.
Research Question: Are measurements of maximal voluntary weight-shifts decreased in severely affected persons with stroke in comparison to healthy controls, and is there a relationship with clinical measurements of trunk control, sitting and standing balance?
Methods: 14 Persons with stroke were recruited in the rehabilitation phase along with 32 healthy controls.
Background: Regaining pre-hospitalization activity levels is only achieved in 30-50% of older patients. Extra physiotherapy time has been proven to improve functional outcome and shorten length of stay, but is costly. Considering their key role in caring for older people, involving informal caregivers in rehabilitation might further improve functional performance.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To investigate interrater and intrarater reliability, measurement error, and convergent and discriminative validity of the Adult Assisting Hand Assessment Stroke (Ad-AHA Stroke).
Design: Cross-sectional observational study.
Setting: A total of 7 stroke rehabilitation centers.
Impaired balance is common post stroke and can be assessed by means of force-platforms measuring center of pressure (COP) displacements during static standing, or more dynamically during lateral maximum weight shift (MWS). However, activities of daily life also include diagonal MWS and since force platforms are nowadays commercially available, investigating lateral and diagonal MWS in a clinical setting might be feasible and clinically relevant. We investigated lateral and diagonal MWS while standing in patients with stroke (PwS) and healthy controls (HC), evaluated MWS towards the affected and the non-affected side for PwS and correlated MWS with measures of balance, gait and fear of falling.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: A thorough understanding of the presence of different upper-limb somatosensory deficits poststroke and the relation with motor performance remains unclear. Additionally, knowledge about the relation between somatosensory deficits and visuospatial neglect is limited.
Objective: To investigate the distribution of upper-limb somatosensory impairments and the association with unimanual and bimanual motor outcomes and visuospatial neglect.