Introduction

Technology-Assisted Pain Rehabilitation (TAP)

The cluster Technology-Assisted Pain Rehabilitation focuses strongly on technology.

Technology opens a window on the physical and mental processes underlying chronic pain and also provides a basis for new methods of treatment. There is a lot of interest in methods of remote care which make use of the possibilities of ICT. Developing and testing tele-services for remote care is in fact a second major research theme of the cluster. In this field of telecare, the cluster is in fact concerned with far more than just the treatment of chronic pain. The ambition is to develop and validate a number of care services within a few years, both in consultation and in monitoring and treatment.

In the coming years the cluster also wants to devise new methods of treatment that use feedback from bio-signals (neuro-feedback and/or feedback from activities and/or energy levels). Virtual Reality techniques and 'mirror therapy' are also options.

(Research) Projects

Coco

ConditieCoach (CoCo)
A technology-supported health care service for self-management of physical fitness of elderly and chronic ill.

The innovation – ConditieCoach (CoCo) - is a technology-supported health care service for self-management of physical fitness. Elderly and chronically ill are thereby remotely supervised by health care professionals. CoCo supports rehabilitation and improvement as well as maintaining physical fitness. The communication between care users and health care professionals can fit into the rhythm of daily life....

COPD dot COM
Development of an infrastructure for remotely supervised activity monitoring of COPD patients and a portal for inter-professional and-patient communication.

Apart from smoking cessation and pharmacotherapy, non- pharmacotherapeutical interventions including diet and nutrition, an active life style and reactivation or pulmonary rehabilitation are important for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Current care however, is felt suboptimal. Two of the key problems are....

Clear

Clear
The Clinical Leading Environment for the Assessment of Rehabilitation protocols in home care (CLEAR) for ageing well

The CLEAR Project proposes the implementation of a Telerehabilitation service in four Member States of the European Union (Italy, Spain, Poland, the Netherlands). The ambition is to convert the project, after its completion, to a European platform for Telerehabilitation, and to contribute to the harmonization of e-health services in....

ACT

ACT
Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) for chronic pain patients

People experiencing pain visit doctors, take painkillers and accommodate to the pain behaviorally to feel healthy and free of pain as soon as possible. While some people become more active to distract from their pain, others take more rest in the hope of recovery or to prevent worse. When the pain lasts longer than 3 months, it is labeled chronic pain. Adjustments and measures that proved useful in diminishing...

telefysiek

Telefysiek
Video teleconsultation for patients with posture and movement disorders.

The video teleconsultation service is a standardized asynchronous question and answer, consultation service for health care professionals who are working with children with postural and movement disorders. Asynchronous, because this allows health care professionals to schedule their own agendas and therefore make the service easily accessible.....

Myotel

Myotel
MYOfeedback based TELEtreatment

The capacity of our current health care system is insufficient to treat all subjects with (chronic) pain in face-to-face treatments. This means that new, more effective and more efficient ways of treatment need to be developed and implemented. The availability of ubiquitous (public) wireless network infrastructure creates....

Ambulatory activity-feedback based teletreatment service for patients with chronic diseases
A new teletreatment based on remote monitoring of health functions and feedback, independent of time and place, utilizing a mobile service infrastructure

The amount of elderly in the Netherlands is increasing. This involves an increase of people with chronic diseases. In the future, the capacity of our current health care system will be insufficient to treat all these people in face to face contacts. This means that more new and efficient....

Playmancer

Playmancer
A European Serious Gaming 3D Environment.

Computer games are a hit among children and youngsters but not very surprisingly the same enthusiasm can be gained when it comes to teaching or training for instance of impaired people. In rehabilitation practice, games have the potential to be a stimulating and attractive treatment modality in which patients can learn and train the desired behavior or skills in a safe environment before they need to be applied in the real world. In addition, the use of motion tracking and biosognal devices enables patients and....

Awareness
Enabling new kind of mobile health services by realizing remote monitoring of health functions and treatment independent of time and place utilizing a mobile service infrastructure.

The aging problem and decreasing amount of health care personnel will increase the load for our health capacity in such a way that there is a high demand for developing new ways of health care delivery. The provision of health care at distance; replacement of health care delivery from specialized institutes towards the daily environment....

Video Teleconsultation
Video-teleconsultation supports communication between health care professionals

Video Teleconsultation is a form of a-synchronic transmural communication using a secured internet environment. It enables exchange, of video cases on posture and movement disorders and additional patient information, between healthcare professionals. Telefysi (Teleconsultation Physiotherapy) is the first reimbursed application of Video Teleconsultation in rehabilitation medicine in....

Movement patterns in non-specific chronic low back pain
Investigation of the differences between patients (with and without movement fear) and normal subjects

Patients with non-specific chronic low back pain (CLBP) complaints form a major problem in western society and increase costs of health care, worker’s compensation and jurisdiction claims. Although the transition of acute to chronic pain is complex and not well understood, it is generally accepted that bio psychosocial factors play an important role. However, the complex interaction between different physical....

HELLODOC
A Home Care Activity System (HCAD) for patients with arm/hand impairment to extent their rehabilitation at home

Upper limb impairment constitutes a major feature of neurological disorders. Due to the pressure on our current healthcare system caused by the increasing number of elderly and patients with chronic disorders; the length of stay in the rehabilitation settings for neurological patients is significantly reduced. To prevent deterioration or perhaps slightly improve arm/hand function when patients are discharged home....