MuSic Moves-co-creating a music-supported exercise programme with and for people with multiple sclerosis: a bicentre participatory mixed methods study.

Objectives: To collaboratively develop a music-supported video-based exercise programme for people with multiple sclerosis (pwMS) with mild to severe disability.

Design And Setting: We performed this participatory mixed methods study from 15 March 2022 to 22 July 2023 at two Austrian multiple sclerosis (MS) centres.

Participants: This research included 67 pwMS, of whom 18 pwMS (including two patient representatives and five MS support group leaders/members) and an additional three family members served as stakeholders.

Robot-assisted gait training in patients with various neurological diseases: A mixed methods feasibility study.

Background: Walking impairment represents a relevant symptom in patients with neurological diseases often compromising social participation. Currently, mixed methods studies on robot-assisted gait training (RAGT) in patients with rare neurological diseases are lacking. This study aimed to explore the feasibility, acceptability, goal attainment and preliminary effects of RAGT in patients with common and rare neurological diseases and understand the intervention context and process.

German translation, cultural adaptation for Austria, and validation of the Neurological Sleep Index-Multiple Sclerosis.

Study Objectives: To translate, culturally adapt, and validate the Neurological Sleep Index-Multiple Sclerosis (NSI-MS) for use in Austrian German-speaking populations with multiple sclerosis.

Methods: Following established guidelines, the NSI-MS diurnal sleepiness, nonrestorative nocturnal sleep, and fragmented nocturnal sleep scales underwent forward-backward translation, with content and face validity, and cultural adaptation to Austria established. Construct validity was evaluated using Rasch analysis.

Effects of activity-oriented physiotherapy with and without eye movement training on dynamic balance, functional mobility, and eye movements in patients with Parkinson's disease: An assessor-blinded randomised controlled pilot trial.

Objectives: To describe changes in balance, walking speed, functional mobility, and eye movements following an activity-oriented physiotherapy (AOPT) or its combination with eye movement training (AOPT-E) in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). To explore the feasibility of a full-scale randomised controlled trial (RCT).

Methods: Using an assessor-blinded pilot RCT, 25 patients with PD were allocated to either AOPT or AOPT-E.

ExerG: adapting an exergame training solution to the needs of older adults using focus group and expert interviews.

Background: Exergames are playful technology-based exercise programs. They train physical and cognitive functions to preserve independence in older adults (OAs) with disabilities in daily activities and may reduce their risk of falling. This study gathered in-depth knowledge and understanding of three different user groups' experiences in and relevant needs, worries, preferences, and expectations of technology-based training, to develop an exergame training device for OAs.