De hedendaagse manier van ontwerpen en bouwen in Nederland ligt onder de loep. Dit komt onder andere door ontwikkelingen op het gebied van klimaatverandering. Utiliteitsbouw wordt hedendaags voornamelijk uitgevoerd in beton en staal. In de afgelopen tijd speelt de milieu-impact (stikstof en CO2) steeds …

Background: Neck and shoulder complaints are common in primary care physiotherapy. These patients experience pain and disability, resulting in high societal costs due to, for example, healthcare use and work absence. Content and intensity of physiotherapy care can be matched to a patient’s risk of persistent …

Imagery Rehearsal Therapy (IRT) is effective for trauma-related nightmares and is also a challenge to patients in finding access to their traumatic memories, because these are saved in non-verbal, visual, or audiovisual language. Art therapy (AT) is an experiential treatment that addresses images rather …

BACKGROUND: Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) can create a temporary or permanent disability that reduce a person's ability to work. Physiotherapists (PTs), occupational therapists (OTs) and exercise therapists (ETs) are often involved in the early management of MSDs. There is a need for additional insights …

BACKGROUND: The therapeutic alliance (TA) is the bond between a patient and a physiotherapist during collaboration on recovery or training. Previous studies focused on the TA between physiotherapists and patients of the general population. Little information exists on whether this is similar in the demanding …

NL:  Tijdens het ontwerptraject van deze Tolhuijs stoel stond het woord simpel centraal voor zowel destoel zelf als de productietechniek. De intentie is om de stoel te laten produceren in socialewerkplaatsen. De benodigde materialen voor de stoel zijn afkomstig van afvalstromen van anderebedrijven, waarbij …

It is widely accepted that psychosocial prognostic factors should be addressed by clinicians in their assessment and management of patient suffering from low back pain (LBP). On the other hand, an overview is missing how these factors are addressed in clinical LBP guidelines. Therefore, our objective …

BACKGROUND: Recovery trajectories differ between individual patients and it is hypothesizes that they can be used to predict if an individual patient is likely to recover earlier or later. Primary aim of this study was to determine if it is possible to identify recovery trajectories for physical functioning …