The contribution of specific psychotropic drugs to fall risk in patients with dementia has not been quantified precisely until now. The authors evaluated the dose‐response relationship between psychotropic drugs and falls in nursing home residents with dementia. Daily drug use and daily falls were recorded …

Background. Stroke is considered to be one of the leading causes of impairment and disability throughout Western society. Each year millions of stroke survivors have to adapt to a new lifestyle, with 25-74% in need of some assistance and a great proportion losing their ability to walk. Recently, Circuit …

A comparison of validity on the Hawkins-Kennedy test, Neer sign, Jobe test and drop-arm test against diagnostic musculoskeletal ultrasound on diagnosing rotator cuff pathologies (tendinopathy, partial-thickness tears and full-thickness tears).

The treatment of tumours in cancer patients have become more advanced and thus more complex. The verification of the dose distribution, calculated by clinical physicists, have thus become more complicated. VSL has started the development on measurements of absolute dose distributions in an antrhopomorphic …

The number of applications for debt management services in the Netherlands shows a steady increase of about 10 percent each year, over the last few years. Municipalities, responsible for these services, at the same need to cut back on expenditures. Our research shows that the (social) return on debt …

Doel/Vraagstelling Overgewicht is een groeiend probleem in Nederland. Effectieve beweegrichtlijnen zijn van nodig voor de preventie van overgewicht. Het doel van deze systematische literatuur review is het beschrijven van recente bevindingen over de gezondheidseffecten van trainingsvormen bij mensen …

Vraagstelling: Welke maximale laboratoriumtest meet het best de aerobe capaciteit bij rolstoelafhankelijke kinderen en adolescenten van zes tot 18 jaar met Spina Bifida: de rollerbank test of de armergometer test? Methode: 11 rolstoelafhankelijke kinderen en adolescenten (acht jongens, drie meisjes, …

Achtergrond: Hamstringblessures zijn de meest voorkomende blessures in de sporten Australian football, rugby, voetbal en sprinten (Gabbe, Bennel, Finch, Wajswelner & Orchard, 2006; Orchard & Seward, 2010; Brooks, Fuller, Kemp & Redding, 2006; Woods et al., 2004; Henderson, Barnes & Portas, 2009; Drezner …

Resonance-enhanced laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy was used to increase the elemental sensitivity of laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy. In resonance-enhanced laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy, two lasers are used. The first laser creates a plasma, and the second laser re excites the most …

SAMENVATTING Achtergrond: Femoroacetabulair impingement, kortweg FAI, ontstaat wanneer er een frequent abnormaal contact is tussen het proximale deel van het femur (de kop van het heupgewricht) en het acetabulum (de kom). Dit kan komen door extra botgroei op het femur (CAM-type FAI) of op het acetabulum …