BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: In the Western world, the Bobath Concept or neurodevelopmental treatment is the most popular treatment approach used in stroke rehabilitation, yet the superiority of the Bobath Concept as the optimal type of treatment has not been established. This systematic review of randomized, …

The human memory has an associative nature. Association and mental visualization combine skills and structures of the left and right brain halves. It is easier to remember pictures, photographs or drawings than words or sentences. In fact, it usually takes a lot of effort to remember words and sentences …

Optimization routines for battery, supercap and fuel cell stack in a fuel cell based propulsion system face two problems: the tendency to cycle beating and the necessity to maintain identical amounts of stored energy in battery and supercap at the start and end of the driving cycle used in the simulation. …

This paper describes a business process and organizational re-design and implementation project for an e-government service organization. In this project the initial process execution time of a Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection request has been reduced from some 60 days to 2 days. This has been …

The predicted mean vote (PMV) model of thermal comfort, created by Fanger in the late 1960s, is used worldwide to assess thermal comfort. Fanger based his model on college-aged students for use in invariant environmental conditions in air-conditioned buildings in moderate thermal climate zones. Environmental …

This article addresses the concept of Private Financing (PF). First, the way in which PF has been successfully applied in the United Kingdom is described. Second, the core of PF is discussed. Third, the method itself is elaborated upon together with the economic principles and hypotheses in an attempt …

Inleiding Dit onderzoeksverslag is geschreven in het kader van de afstudeeropdracht in het vierde studiejaar van de Opleiding voor Fysiotherapie aan de Fontys Paramedische Hogeschool te Eindhoven. Het projectvoorstel is ingediend door Revalidatiecentrum Blixembosch te Eindhoven, afdeling fysiotherapie. Er …

When planning a study measuring the effects of a neurodevelopmental treatment (NDT), we were confronted with the methodological problem that while measuring the effects of NDT, a rival hypothesis is that the decision to implement the NDT might be related to the quality of nursing care. Therefore, we …

Doel en onderzoeksvraag: In dit afstudeerverslag is een pilotonderzoek omschreven. Dit onderzoek richtte zich op de vraag: Wat is de meerwaarde van fysiotherapie met positieve psychologische interventies, die door een basisfysiotherapeut kan worden gegeven, op pijngewaarwording, pijnbeleving, pijngedrag …

Title The influence of postural control exercises on re-learning gait in patients diagnosed with hemiplegia as a result of cortical CVA. Main Question What is the influence of postural control exercises on re-learning gait in patients diagnosed with hemiplegia as a result of cortical CVA? Objective To …