Focused Symposium - Thursday, May 15

Focused Symposium 1

Rehabilitation approaches to improve real-life use of the upper limb across all phases after stroke
Time: 11.30 - 13:00
Chair: Janne Veerbeek

Description

Wearable-based stimulation of upper-limb use in the subacute stage after stroke: a feasibility study

Geert Verheyden (12.00 - 12.30)
The adapted H-GRASP program for perceived and actual daily-life upper limb activity in the chronic phase post-stroke

Janne Verbeek (12.30 - 13.00)
Impact of neglect on the relationship between upper limb motor function and upper limb performance in the (hyper)acute poststroke phase

Focused Symposium 2

Advancing neurorehabilitation: new frontiers in spinal cord injury and stroke treatments, cellular therapy, and neuromodulation
Time: 11.30 - 13:00
Chair: Hatice Kumru and James Guest

Description

Xabier Urra-Head (11.30 - 12.00)
The evolving landscape of acute stroke therapies 

James Guest (12.00 - 12.30)
Regenerating hope: the evolution of neuroregenerative therapies

Hatice Kumru (12.30 - 13.00)
Stimulating progress: the latest neuromodulation approaches in neurorehabilitation

Focused Symposium 3

From neural mechanisms to clinical strategies: a multidisciplinary perspective on neural rehabilitation
and neuromodulation
Time: 11.30 - 13:00
Chair: Hanneke Hulst and Marit Ruitenberg

Description

Marit Ruitenberg (11.30 - 11.50)
Cognition and movement in Parkinson’s disease: a dynamic duo 

Jip Aarts (11.50 - 12.10)
Combining exercise and cognitive training to postpone cognitive decline in people with Multiple Sclerosis: study protocol and preliminary results of the Don’t be late! project

Sarah Donkers (12.10 - 12.30)
Integrating shared multidisciplinary knowledge to advance participation in meaningful life tasks in real-world environments for people with chronic neurological conditions of the central nervous system

Lousin Moumdjian (12.30 - 12.50)
Auditory-motor coupling in neurological rehabilitation: perception-action loops, neural correlates, and methodological paradigms

Discussion (12.50 - 13.00)

Focused Symposium 4

Freezing-of-gait rehabilitation: from pathophysiological perspectives to current and future treatment approaches
and neuromodulation
Time: 14:30 - 16:00

Chair: Jorik Nonnekes 

Description

Jorik Nonnekes
Title TBC

Moran Gilat
Title TBC

Melvyn Roerdink
Title TBC

Maaike Goris
Title TBC

Discussion

Focused Symposium 5

Presentations

From lab to life: can we use rehabilitation technology to increase time-on-task and is there an added value of using rehabilitation technology to real life performance?
Time:  14:30 - 16:00
Chair: Anke Van Bladel

Description

Anke Van Bladel
The added value of training gait stability on an instrumented treadmill in persons with a brain lesion

Noël Keijsers
Efficacy of Walking Adaptability Training on Walking Capacity in Ambulatory People with Motor Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury: A Multicenter Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Cross-over Trial

Lotte Hagedoorn
Home-based exergaming for enhancing resistance to falls after stroke (HEROES): proof-of-principle evaluation

Marjan Coremans
Determining dose in motor rehabilitation integrating advanced technology for adults with chronic central neurological disease: observational measurement of Time On Task

Discussion