When firefighting, the combination of exposition to high temperatures, high physical demands and wearing (heavy and insulated) personal protective equipment lead to increased risk of heat stress and exhaustion in firefighters. Heat stress can easily evolve into a life-threatening heat stroke. Once heat …

Objective After a stroke event, stroke patients have a reduced ability of walking and their cardiorespiratory fitness, aerobic load and oxygen uptake (V̇O2 peak) is also lowered. A demand to be able to participate in society again for stroke patients is the ability to walk independently whereas these …

Worldwide, cerebrovascular accidents (CVA) or stroke are the second leading cause of death and the third leading cause of disability (Johnson, Onuma, Owolabi, & Sachdev 2016). The people who survive will most likely enter rehabilitation to improve or learn how to live with the consequences of a stroke. …

The natural gas/diesel dual-fuel engine is an interesting technique to reduce greenhouse gas emission. A limitation of this concept is the emission of un-combusted methane. In this study we analyzed the influence of PFI gas-injection timing on cylinder to cylinder gas-distribution, and the resulting …

SAMENVATTING Dit is een praktijkgericht kwalitatief ontwikkelingsonderzoek waarbij onderzocht is hoe beeldend vaktherapeuten aan de hand van het Duale Procesmodel (DPM) volgens Stroebe en Schut (1999) kunnen werken aan verlies met CVA revalidanten binnen de GRZ (geriatrische revalidatiezorg). Rouwen …

Die vorliegende Arbeit hat zum Ziel, einen Überblick über das Auftreten von Dysphagien bei Patienten nach Extraktion zu schaffen um eine effiziente Risikoab-schätzung und Aspirationsprophylaxe zu gewährleisten. Hierfür wurden retrospek-tiv von 301 Patienten Daten aus der klinischen Routine, dem Stroke-Regis-ter …

Phantom limb pain following amputation is highly prevalent as it affects up to 80% of amputees. Many amputees suffer from phantom limb pain for many years and experience major limitations in daily routines and quality of life. Conventional pharmacological interventions often have negative side-effects …

Objectives: To investigate immediate changes in walking performance associated with three implicit motor learning strategies and to explore patient experiences of each strategy. Design: Participants were randomly allocated to one of three implicit motor learning strategies. Within-group comparisons …