Field of work
I am an associated professor at the Department of health and functioning (Physiotherapy). I am responsible for the teaching in neurological physiotherapy in the bachelor programme and I am the leader for the bachelor dissertation subject.
I would like to be a part of creating knowledgeable, enthusiastic and independent physiotherapists for now and the future. I therefore want to motivate and inspire the students to be responsible for their own learning, learn to love neurological physiotherapy, understand the enormous possibilities good physiotherapy can give, stimulate curiosity and clinical reasoning abilities, and to master keeping updated, reading critically and to understand new knowledge.
I became a physiotherapist in 1998 at the University of Brighton, and have later done both a masters- and a PhD degree at the University of Bergen. I am a specialist in neurological physiotherapy and have worked at the department of Physiotherapy, section of neurology at Haukeland University Hospital since I was qualified and until I started at the Western Norway University of Applied Scineces in February 2020.
In my research I am generally interested in neurorehabilitation, and especially in stroke rehablitaton, walking, walking rehabilitation, activiy monitoring and physical activity. I have also been part of exciting projects about reablement in older adults, walking with cerebral palsy and walking in elderly.
I am in the Research group of Movement and Function (BeFu).
Neurological physiotherapy
Methodology
Walking and physical activity after stroke
Publications
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Tiltak for å vedlikeholde eller bedre gangfunksjon
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Gange som kjennetegn på sykdommer og tilstander
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Can adults with cerebral palsy perform and benefit from ballistic strength training to improve walking outcomes? A mixed methods feasibility study
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Muscle Strength as a Predictor of Gait Variability after Two Years in Community-Living Older Adults
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The impact of motor task and environmental constraints on gait patterns during treadmill walking in a fully immersive virtual environment
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Immediate gait adaptation from walking on a treadmill to walking on a treadmill in a fully immersive virtual environment
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Two-year changes in gait variability in community-living older adults
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Reduced Walking Speed in Subjective and Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Cross-Sectional Study
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Bruk av virtuelle miljø i fysioterapipraksis?
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The walk ratio: Investigation of invariance across walking conditions and gender in community-dwelling older people
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The Association between Daily Walking Behavior and Self-Reported Physical Function in Community-Dwelling Older Adults.
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A longitudinal study investigating how stroke severity, disability, and physical function the first week post-stroke are associated with walking speed six months post-stroke
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Hverdagsrehabilitering av hjemmeboende eldre personer. Presentasjon av en doktorgradsavhandling
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Hverdagsrehabilitering - forskningsresultater fra to norske studier
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Reablement in home-dwelling older adults
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Predictors of outcomes following reablement in community-dwelling older adults
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Psychometric properties of the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure in home-dwelling older adults
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Presentasjon av forskningsresultater når det gjelder helseeffekt
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Aktivitet og bevegelsesutfall ved små hjerneslag og transitorisk ischemisk attakk (TIA)
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Reablement in community-dwelling older adults: A randomised controlled trial
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“The prevalence of distress, emotional reactivity, fatigue and health related quality of life among newly diagnosed cancer patients starting adjuvant treatment”.
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Walking during body-weight-supported treadmill training and acute responses to varying walking speed and body-weight support in ambulatory patients post-stroke
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Treadmill walking with body weight support
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Familiarisation to body weight supported treadmill training for patients post-stroke
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Reliabilitet av tredimensjonal ganganalyse for personer med traumatiske hjerneskader
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KONSERVATIV BEHANDLING AV LUMBAL SPINAL STENOSE
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Effekt av manipulasjon og hjemmeøvelser på tre pasienter med langvarig cervikogen hodepine. En eksperimentell singel-subject studie
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Sammenligning av gangfunksjon etter to ulike operative inngrep med innsetting av totalprotese i hofte
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Gait variability measures may represent different constructs
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Treadmill walking with body weight support - Effect of treadmill, harness and body weight support systems
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VARIABILITY IN MOTOR FUNCTIONADAPTABILITY, IMPAIRED CONTROL - OR SIMPLY MEASUREMENT ERROR?
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Reproducibility of variability
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Treadmill walking - is it different from overground walking ?