Sökning: "stroke and rehabilitation and everyday"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 27 avhandlingar innehållade orden stroke and rehabilitation and everyday.
1. Lower-extremity constraint-induced movement therapy in individuals with stroke : improvements, experiences, and health-related quality of life
Sammanfattning : Background: Stroke is the third-leading cause of disability worldwide, and there are rehabilitation needs not only in the first year but throughout the lifetime. The ability to walk is crucial in everyday life since it affects mobility, self-care, and social activities. LÄS MER
2. Participation after stroke in a short- and long-term perspective
Sammanfattning : The main scope of this thesis was to study and describe perceived participation among persons with stroke. In doing so, different timepoints were chosen to make a more complete picture of participation after stroke. The two first studies were performed using quantitative methods. LÄS MER
3. Movement Control after Stroke : Studies on Sit-to-walk and on the Relations between Clinical and Laboratory Measures
Sammanfattning : Aims: The principal aims of this research were 1) to extend existing knowledge of the everyday sit-to-walk (STW) transfer in subjects with stroke and in matched controls by exploring temporal, kinematic, and kinetic aspects, and 2) to investigate the relations between some clinical and laboratory measures of postural control and locomotion in stroke rehabilitation and research. Methods: Ten community-living subjects with stroke (mean age 59 years) and ten matched controls were enrolled in the STW studies (Studies I, II, and IV). LÄS MER
4. Spouses of Stroke Patients: Psychological Well-Being and Life Satisfaction
Sammanfattning : Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate longitudinal changes in spouses' psychological well-being and life satisfaction between the first weeks, four months and one year after their partners' stroke and to study the associations between spouses' psychological well-being and life satisfaction and characteristics of the spouses and stroke patients at these three points in time.Method: Eighty-three consecutively recruited spouses of first-ever stroke patients < 75 years participated. LÄS MER
5. Physiotherapeutic perspectives on balance control after stroke : exercises, experiences and measures
Sammanfattning : The overall aim of this thesis was to investigate physiotherapeutic perspectives on balance after stroke, in terms of exercises, experiences and measurements. Study I was a pilot randomized controlled trial with 46 persons who had had a stroke, 24 of whom were included in the intervention group and 22 who were included in the control group. LÄS MER