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Human Movement Sciences: Sport, Exercise and Health (Research)
English
6 ECTS

This course provides an overview of contemporary insights, methods and research questions in the field of rehabilitation from a human movement sciences perspective. The topics range from abnormal motor development in children to rehabilitation after physical or neurological impairments in adults.

After this course students should be able to identify, summarize, critically evaluate and expand upon topics regarding these issues. Specifically, students get acquainted with different types of qualitative motor assessments, instruments and methods to quantify motor performance. The students learn to understand the relevant issues, terms, concepts, mechanisms, and models relevant to human movement science in the context of rehabilitation, and relate those to various aspects of motor development, functional recovery, adaptation, compensation, training and learning of function and activities in the framework of restoration of mobility and upper-limb performance in persons with neurological and musculoskeletal impairments.
They learn to understand the contexts as well as the practical process of scientific research and communication in the combined fields of rehabilitation and human movement sciences. They also appreciate clinical decision-making and acknowledge the importance of the ICF-framework (International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health) in rehabilitation medicine.

Prof. Dr. T.W.J. Janssen

Course Description

During a part of this course, the understanding of abnormal motor development and developmental disorders in fetuses, infants and young children is deepened. Lectures and a tutorial provide insight into actual problems in the research and practice of disorders in which motor problems are the defining characteristics (i.e., cerebral palsy and developmental coordination disorder). Being the key issue in physical rehabilitation of adults, this course subsequently concentrates on the restoration of motor performance, and its underlying mechanisms, at the different levels of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (WHO 2001). Primarily a biophysical approach is taken: biomechanical, motor control and exercise (neuro)physiological principles, techniques and research findings will be discussed in specific patient populations, such as those with stroke, spinal cord injury, lower-limb amputation, Parkinson’s disease, breast cancer and arthrosis. Aspects of functional recovery, neuroplasticity, adaptation, compensation as well as concepts of learning and training mechanisms will be addressed. Research in this field will be presented and discussed in the format of ‘Capita Selecta’.

Study Characteristics

  • Discipline: Human Movement Sciences: Sport, Exercise and Health (Research)
  • Type of education: Lectures, Computer Lab and Practical
  • Academic skill: N/A
  • Graduate School: N/A
  • Start date: TBD
  • End date: TBD
  • Minimum number of students: N/A
  • Maximum number of students: N/A
  • Admission criteria: Contact the course coordinator for information on admission criteria: Prof. Dr. T.W.J. Janssen
  • Concluding assessment: N/A
  • Assessment type: N/A
  • With Certificate: N/A
  • Schedule info: 11 lectures of 2 hrs in which the current issues and state-of-the-art research in normal and abnormal motor development and in different patient populations is discussed; 2 site visits (4 hrs each) to rehabilitation centers Reade and Heliomare; 1 tutorial of 2 hrs. Attending the site visits and tutorials is compulsory. Six 2-hr meetings in which each student-pair gives a 15-minute presentation on a current rehabilitation topic. Each student should attend at least 3 of these meetings.
  • Number of lessons: 11 lectures; 2 site visits; 1 tutorial; 6 meetings (at least 3 meetings mandatory)
  • Total course duration in hrs.: 44 hrs
  • Sign up period: N/A
  • Anticipated hrs of study: N/A
  • Available to: PhD students VU (and VU RMA students)

  • Course Description & Study Characteristics

    Course Description

    During a part of this course, the understanding of abnormal motor development and developmental disorders in fetuses, infants and young children is deepened. Lectures and a tutorial provide insight into actual problems in the research and practice of disorders in which motor problems are the defining characteristics (i.e., cerebral palsy and developmental coordination disorder). Being the key issue in physical rehabilitation of adults, this course subsequently concentrates on the restoration of motor performance, and its underlying mechanisms, at the different levels of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (WHO 2001). Primarily a biophysical approach is taken: biomechanical, motor control and exercise (neuro)physiological principles, techniques and research findings will be discussed in specific patient populations, such as those with stroke, spinal cord injury, lower-limb amputation, Parkinson’s disease, breast cancer and arthrosis. Aspects of functional recovery, neuroplasticity, adaptation, compensation as well as concepts of learning and training mechanisms will be addressed. Research in this field will be presented and discussed in the format of ‘Capita Selecta’.

    Study Characteristics

    • Discipline: Human Movement Sciences: Sport, Exercise and Health (Research)
    • Type of education: Lectures, Computer Lab and Practical
    • Academic skill: N/A
    • Graduate School: N/A
    • Start date: TBD
    • End date: TBD
    • Minimum number of students: N/A
    • Maximum number of students: N/A
    • Admission criteria: Contact the course coordinator for information on admission criteria: Prof. Dr. T.W.J. Janssen
    • Concluding assessment: N/A
    • Assessment type: N/A
    • With Certificate: N/A
    • Schedule info: 11 lectures of 2 hrs in which the current issues and state-of-the-art research in normal and abnormal motor development and in different patient populations is discussed; 2 site visits (4 hrs each) to rehabilitation centers Reade and Heliomare; 1 tutorial of 2 hrs. Attending the site visits and tutorials is compulsory. Six 2-hr meetings in which each student-pair gives a 15-minute presentation on a current rehabilitation topic. Each student should attend at least 3 of these meetings.
    • Number of lessons: 11 lectures; 2 site visits; 1 tutorial; 6 meetings (at least 3 meetings mandatory)
    • Total course duration in hrs.: 44 hrs
    • Sign up period: N/A
    • Anticipated hrs of study: N/A
    • Available to: PhD students VU (and VU RMA students)

Would you like to register or want to know more?

Please contact the course coordinator prof. dr. T.W.J. Janssen:

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