Rehabilitation/habilitation
Project Title: Problems of Balance and Life Quality in Patients with Mild Traumatic Head Injury (MTBI) Four Years after Injury.
Objective/Research Question: The objective of this study is to follow up patients with mild traumatic head injury four years post-injury in order to obtain more knowledge of their subjective experience of problems with balance. The project seeks to address the following questions:
-How may the self-reported experience of balance four years after mild head injury compare with the equivalent reporting one year after the injury?
-What are the connections between self-reported balance measurements, performance-based balance measurements and quality of life measurements four years after mild head injury?
-What are the differences between those reporting balance problems and those reporting none, in relation to the performance-based tests and life quality four years after the injury?
Contact at FHS: Associate Professor PhD Astrid Bergland, Astrid.Bergland@hf.hio.no
Cooperating in the project: Ingerid Kleffelgård, UllevålUniversityHospital
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Project Title: Understanding the Concepts of Public Healthcare and Rehabilitation.
Objective/Research Question: To investigate informants’ points of view regarding the concepts of public healthcare and rehabilitation as the basis for future education within these fields at Bachelor’s degree, further education and Master’s degree levels, by focussing on the ways different professions associated with the field of public healthcare (health promotion and preventative work) and comprehensive rehabilitation, understand these concepts.
Contact at FHS: Associate Professor PhD Astrid Bergland, Astrid.Bergland@hf.hio.no and Assistant Professor Jorid Grimeland, Jorid.Grimeland@hf.hio.no
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Project Title: ‘Active and Steady – Even Though You Are Brittle’. Do physical training and fall-prevention interventions result in increased mobility, life quality and fewer falls for clients with osteoporosis?
Objective/Research Question: The main objective with this clinical randomised study is the assessment of the effect of physiotherapy as part of the interdisciplinary interventions made at the osteoporosis outpatients clinic, ØstfoldHospital. Sarpsborg .
Contact at FHS: Associate Professor PhD Astrid Bergland, Astrid.Bergland@hf.hio.no
Cooperating in the project: Hilde Thorsen, Rannveig Kåresen, Specialist Centre, ØstfoldHospital. Sarpsborg, Laila Brøndbo, ØstfoldHospital Health Area
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Project Title: ‘Steel Your Legs, Stay Upright’ . Does physical training help prevent falls and promote better balance and life quality in the elderly? (This is a randomised controlled study of treatment.)
Objective/Research Question: The main objective is to develop a proposition for the elderly who have been admitted to geriatric wards at UllevålUniversityHospital. This project will investigate whether physical training has the effect of improving balance, reducing the number of falls, increasing activity in everyday life and giving a better life quality.
Contact at FHS: Associate Professor PhD Astrid Bergland, Astrid.Bergland@hf.hio.no
Cooperating in the project: Therese Brovold, Karin Halsa, UllevålUniversityHospital
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Project Title: ‘Physical Daily Activities for Residents in a Nursing Home Setting’: a Nordic multi-centre study
Objective/Research Question: The main objective of this study is to see whether physical functioning, life quality and mental health are retained or improved in nursing home clients, using an individually adapted intervention for three months.
Contact at FHS: Associate Professor PhD Astrid Bergland, Astrid.Bergland@hf.hio.no
Cooperating in the project: Professor Knut Engedal, Head of Department, National Competency Centre for Senile Dementia, Dr. Phil. Jorun Helbostad, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, PhD Kerstin Frandin (Stockholm), PhD Lena Borell (Stockholm), Professor Åke Seiger (Stockholm), PhD Karin Hellstrom (Uppsala), professor Lis Puggard, (Odense), Senior lecturer Terrttu Parkatti (Jyvaskyla)
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Project Title: Accessibility for All – Outdoors - Universal design/Design for All
Objective/Research Question: How are measures which provide accessibility for all in local municipalities described in the literature? The question is confined to outdoor areas, in this case between buildings, footpaths and recreational areas. The measures to be analysed are attached to ease of movement from place to place, and are applicable to all age groups.
Contact at FHS: Assistant Professor Jorid Grimeland, Jorid.Grimeland@hf.hio.no
Cooperating in the project: Delta Centre at Ministry of Health and Care Services and Associate Professor PhD Astrid Bergland, Astrid.Bergland@hf.hio.no
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Project Title: Interprofessionality within health care educations: ideology and practice.
Objective/Research Question: To explore how occupational-, physiotherapy-, medical- and nursing students become involved in, and perceive interaction across professional boundaries during their vocational placements. Today’s treatment and patient care often involves interactions between several professions. At the same time professions are criticized for their shortcomings in cooperation. Interprofessionality is often taken for granted in interprofessional interaction, and this project will question interprofessionality as a point of departure for actions taken.
Contact at FHS: Assistent Professor Hanne Hagland, Hanne.Hagland@hf.hio.no
Cooperating in the project: professor Per Solvang, professor Jens-Christian Smeby,
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Project Title: Images of the Future as Cultural Configurations of Life as Handicapped: how are these images are incorporated into societal and family contexts?
Objective/Research Question: Initially to work up a knowledge base about a field we know little about. But equally, topics such as the future, life projects, etc. as the main foundations of rehabilitation and rehabilitation research.
Contact at FHS: Research Fellow Halvor Melbye Hanisch, Halvor-Melbye.Hanisch@hf.hio.no
Cooperating in the project: Professor Per Solvang
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Project Title: Stroke Patients and Ambulatory Training: which immediate changes can be documented in stroke patients’ walking patterns when fitted with various ankle braces?
Objective/Research Question: Changes in stroke patients’ walking with and without the use of ankle braces. Emg registration, video analysis and self- reporting of own experience.
Contact at FHS: Assistant Professor Nora Hagstrøm, Nora.Hagstrom@hf.hio.no and Assistant Professor Siri Tessem Siri.Tessem@hf.hio.no
Cooperating in the project: Siri Merethe Omang and Anne Splendrup Erichsen, AkerUniversityHospital
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Project Title: Rehabilitation – Stroke Research in Early Phases of Rehabilitation
Objective/Research Question:The study targets stroke patients who are unable to walk independently on admission for rehabilitation. It will determine the efficacy of treadmill walking with partial weight support via an overhead harness on the establishment and quality of independent walking. Furthermore, by reassessing the subjects six months later, it will evaluate the longer-term effect of this physiotherapy intervention.
The experimental hypotheses are:
In patients who have recently suffered a stroke and are unable to walk, ambulatory training using a treadmill with partial weight support via an overhead harness will be more effective than assisted walking on the ground. Benefits include:
-reducing the time taken to achieve independent walking,
-improving the quality of walking and
-producing a better quality of walking 6 months later.
A randomised controlled trial. A prospective multi-centre study, in cooperation with various institutions in Australia and Norway
Contact at FHS: Assistant Professor Birgitta Langhammer,
birgitta.langhammer@hf.hio.no
Cooperating in the project: Dr. Louise Ada l.ada@fhs.usyd.edu.au , Physiotherapist Ellen Høyer Ellen.Hoyer@sunnaas.no
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Project Title: Rehabilitation in Stroke Research - the Acute Phase
Objective/Research Question: Our broad aim is to improve outcome for the upper limb after stroke. Specifically, we will develop protocols for physiotherapy intervention to prevent secondary musculoskeletal problems in the upper limb after stroke. In doing so, we will design better supportive devices that will not only reduce the incidence of subluxation, but will also hinder the development of contractions and pain. The proposed study will determine the efficacy of an innovative intervention to prevent subluxation of the affected shoulder (using a modified lapboard while seated and a triangular sling while standing) compared with current physiotherapy intervention (using a hemisling) in patients after stroke. The experimental hypotheses are:
Patients who have recently suffered a stroke and are unable to move their arm, benefit from using a modified lapboard while seated and a triangular sling while standing . This is more effective than using a hemisling in the
-prevention of subluxation of the affected shoulder
-prevention of pain in the affected shoulder,
-maintenance of range of motion in the affected shoulder, and
-improvement of function of the affected upper arm
both after 4 weeks of intervention and after the 6 weeks follow-up.
A randomised controlled trial. A prospective multicentre study, in cooperation with various institutions in Australia and Norway
Contact at FHS: Assistant Professor Birgitta Langhammer,
birgitta.langhammer@hf.hio.no
Cooperating in the project: Dr Louise Ada l.ada@fhs.usyd.edu.au , Physiotherapist Audhild Tørstad, Audhild.Torstad@sabhf.no
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Project Title: Rehabilitation: Stroke Research in the Rehabilitation and Post-stroke Phase
Objective/Research Question: What results from regular physical stamina, weight lifting and training balance may be gained by people who have suffered a stroke? Results are measured by recording motoric functioning, mortality and I and P-ADL at 6 and 12 months’ follow-up, and compared with results from people who have had a stroke and received today’s follow-up as practiced in healthcare already.
A blind experimental longitudinal randomised stratified controlled study. Randomisation and stratification using dice to divide the two groups; one control group and a treatment group upon discharge, ‘blinded’ with the envelopes remaining sealed until the last treatment of the last patient is completed two years post-stroke. The treatment group receives training in relation to stamina ( max. VO2), weight lifting and training balance four times per year, 20 times for one hour’s duration, altogether 80 hours. The other group receives functional training: walking, moving from place to place at home, according to individual need, as practiced in social healthcare today. The training begins one month after admission to hospital and continues for one year.
Contact at FHS: Assistant Professor Birgitta Langhammer, birgitta.langhammer@hf.hio.no
Cooperating in the project: Professor Johan Stanghelle Johan.Stanghelle@sunnaas.no , Professor Birgitta Lindmark Birgitta.Lindmark@sjukgym.uu.se , Asker og Bærum hospital, Physiotherpaist Audhild Tørstad audhild.torstad@sabhf.no , Bærum kommune: Head of rehabilitation Physiotherapist Gerd Bjerkaas gerd.bjerkaas@baerum.kommune.no , Head of rehabilitation Physiotherapist Aud Karlsrud Aud.R.Karlsrud@baerum.kommune.no , Head of rehabilitation Occupational Therapist trine.arvidsen@baerum.kommune.no Asker kommune Head of rehabilitation Physiotherapist Gerd Kaasa gerd.kaasa@asker.kommune.no and private practicing physiotherapists i Asker og Bærum.
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Project Title: Interprofessional Cooperation in Local Health Authorities
Objective/Research Question: To develop more knowledge about interprofessional understanding and interprofessional cooperation within different professions in local authority health care.
The research question is linked to the differing professions’ experiences, frames of reference, attitudes and values and how these influence interprofessional cooperation.
Contact at FHS: Assistant Professor Dorte Lybye Norenberg, Dorte.Norenberg@hf.hio.no
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Project Title: Assessment of Function Related to Work Ability
Objective/Research Question: The relationship between self-reported and measured functioning in a selection of back patients, assessed with the help of Norwegian Functioning Questionnaires and the Roland Morris Disability Questionnaire.
Contact at FHS: Assistant ProfessorYngve Røe, Yngve.Roe@hf.hio.no
Cooperating in the project: Søren Brage, Senior Researcher at the Institute for General and
Human Medicine, UiO
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Project Title: People with Dizziness/Vertigo
Objective/Research Question: The objective of this project is to develop new knowledge about, and better healthcare for, people suffering form dizziness/vertigo and/or balance disturbances. This will comprise a survey and a randomised clinical trial with a control group.
Contact at FHS: Assistant Professor Anne Lise Tamber, AnneLise.Tamber@hf.hio.no
Cooperating in the project: Assistant Professor Kari Anette Bruusgaard, Kari.Bruusgaard@hf.hio.no
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Project Title: Goal-setting, Development and Carrying out Goal-related Activities in Daily Life.
Objective/Research Question: This project is linked to parents’ and professionals’ perspectives on objectives set for children with cerebral paresis, during an intensive rehabilitation programme
Contact at FHS: Associate Professor PhD Sigrid Østensjø, sigrid.ostensjo@hf.hio.no ; Associate Professor Ingvil Øien, ingvil.oien@hf.hio.no ; Associate Professor PhD Bjørg Fallang, bjorg.fallang@hf.hio.no
Cooperating in the project: Hanne Langeland, Rehabilitation unit, BuskerudDistrictHospital
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Project Title: Reliability and Applicability of the International Classification of Function, Disability and Health (ICF)
Objective/Research Question: Reliability testing of the Norwegian version of ICF, taking as its point of departure the various problems, resources and objectives charted by physiotherapists in their work rehabilitating people suffering from multitrauma
Contact at FHS: Associate Professor PhD Sigrid Østensjø, sigrid.ostensjo@hf.hio.no
Cooperating in the project: Helene Søberg,UllevålUniversityHospital
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