A5083325968- Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
- Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research
- Restless Legs Syndrome Research
- Thermoregulation and physiological responses
- Physical Activity and Health
- Sleep and Wakefulness Research
- Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases
- Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
- Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Infrared Thermography in Medicine
- Clinical practice guidelines implementation
- Pediatric Pain Management Techniques
- Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
- Pain Management and Placebo Effect
- Balance, Gait, and Falls Prevention
- Chronic Disease Management Strategies
- Workplace Health and Well-being
- Sleep and related disorders
- Health Literacy and Information Accessibility
- Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology
- Myofascial pain diagnosis and treatment
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
2024-2025
SOMT University of Physiotherapy
2015-2025
Zorginstituut Nederland
2025
Hanze University of Applied Sciences
2012-2019
In adults who experience nocturnal leg cramps, does stretching of the calf and hamstring muscles each day just before sleep reduce frequency severity cramps?A randomised trial with concealed allocation intention-to-treat analysis.Eighty aged over 55 years cramps were not being treated quinine.The experimental group performed stretches nightly, immediately going to sleep, for six weeks. The control no specific exercises. Both groups continued other usual activities.Participants recorded in a...
The eight-item Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire is used as a screening instrument in physical therapy to assess mental defeat patients with acute low back pain, besides patient perception might determine the course and risk for chronic pain. However, psychometric properties of common musculoskeletal disorders like pain have not been adequately studied. Patients' perceptions vary across different populations affect coping styles. Thus, our aim was internal consistency, test-retest...
Background/objective: Low back pain (LBP) is the leading cause of disability worldwide, resulting in enormous socio-economic and personal consequences. Sensory profiles during acute stage will predict central sensitization symptoms chronic stage, as main mechanism behind nociplastic chronicity. Therefore, our objective was to establish overall sex-specific sensory profile cut-off points that distinguish at 12 weeks, using a retrospective prognostic cohort study design. Methods: Two hundred...
Do measures of state anxiety and trait in people with acute low back pain (ALBP) improve prediction chronic (CLBP), defined as or pain-related disability at 12 weeks? Observational multi-centre prospective cohort study primary physiotherapy care measurements baseline weeks anxiety, well other established prognostic factors for CLBP. People nonspecific ALBP, aged 18 to 60 years, who had been free ≥ 3 months before their current were being treated according the Dutch clinical guidelines. CLBP...
Background: Acute low back pain has a high prevalence, and when persisting into chronicity, it results in enormous socio-economic consequences. Sensory preferences may be key factors predicting central sensitization as the main mechanism of nociplastic chronicity. Objectives: Build model to predict symptoms using sensory profiles based on PROGRESS framework. Methods: A Prognostic Model Research study was carried out at 12 weeks, baseline profiles, 114 patients with acute pain. Independent...
Introduction Acute lower back pain can lead to neuroplastic changes in the central nervous system, and symptoms of sensitization after 12 weeks. While sensory sensitivity has been shown predict sensitization, trait profiles may be prognostic persistence low over time.
Patient-reported outcomes measures (PROMs) are increasingly prevalent in healthcare and used for shared decision-making quality evaluation. However, the extent to which patients with varying health literacy levels can complete PROMs is often overlooked. This may lead biased aggregated data being excluded from studies or other PROM collection initiatives. cross-sectional study evaluates comprehensibility of 157 well-known widely scales using a checklist.
Sensory profiles (SPs) may be useful in classifying patients based on sensory sensitivity and behavioral responses to stimuli develop personalized treatments for nonspecific chronic low back pain (CLBP). The Adolescent/Adult Profile (AASP) identifies four response-related quadrants: Sensitive, Sensation Avoiding, Low Registration, Seeking. It is an appropriate questionnaire evaluating SPs; however, it has not been validated CLBP.To assess the internal consistency, test-retest reliability,...
Background: Clinical Practice Guidelines for low back pain emphasize implementing assessment and addressing of psychosocial context. It is unknown to what extent manual physiotherapists incorporate psychological factors in their diagnostic management patients with nonspecific pain.Methods: An online survey among Dutch was conducted exploring the use 10 constructs. Frequencies attention during history-taking questionnaires were calculated. Associations between therapists characteristics...
BACKGROUND: The predictive validity of the Low Back Pain Perception Scale is determined in two studies general practice and showed sufficient discriminative ability, although psychometric properties scale have never been established until now.OBJECTIVE: To determine reliability acute nonspecific low back pain patients.METHODS: has authorized translated into Dutch by bilingual content experts.A sample 84 patients physiotherapy primary care, mean age (SD) 42 (12) years participated this...
Background: connections are essential for normal sleep.Stroke can alter this circuit affecting also breathing during sleep.Aim: To compare the functional connectivity of VPL-TN in stroke patients affected by SDB(S-SDB) as respect to cases not (S) and healthy controls (HC).Methods: Stroke were submitted clinical, neuroradiological full nocturnal polysomnography (PSG) monitoring.Conventional MR exams resting state (rs-fMRI) performed a single session (3 Tesla Siemens-Verio) 12...