Neurorehabilitation Research Group
Institute for Neurorehabilitation and Evidence-based Practice (BDH), "An-Institut" University of Greifswald
The neurorehabilitation research group engages in diverse research methods and activities that
- seek to promote functional recovery (e.g. impairment-oriented training with the arm basis training, arm ability training; neglect therapy)
- develop technology applications to improve both the specificity and intensity of neurorehabilitation interventions (e.g. non-invasive brain stimulation and humanoid robot as therapy assistant),
- run clinical trials to assess clinical benefits of interventions developed by the group and collaborators (e.g. E-BRAiN),
- design and implement healthcare research and trials promoting and assessing new ways of healthcare for neurorehabilitation (e.g. OptiNIV),
- provide evidence syntheses (e.g. Cochrane Review),
- use evidence synthesis and evidence-to-decision methodology to bridge the gap between neurorehabilitation research and practice (evidence-to-decision projects),
- develop and provide clinical practice guidelines and clinical pathways both with a national and an international background (e.g. for stroke rehabilitation).
Educational activities
Educational activities of the neurorehabilitation research group include
- teaching of students,
- the provision of teaching courses for therapists (e.g. www.iotraining.eu),
- biannual Summer School Neurorehabilitation,
- international WFNR Certificate Teaching Course on Stroke Rehabilitation,
- international symposia (e.g. Use of Humanoid Robot Technology for Therapy),
- support for regional neurorehabilitation education initiatives worldwide (as head of Education Committee, WFNR),
- contributions to the scientific organization of national (DGNR) and international conferences (e.g. WCNR) in neurorehabilitation