Mona Kristin Aaslund
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).
Courses taught
Neurological physiotherapy
Methodology
Research areas
Walking and physical activity after stroke
- FYS200, Physiotherapeutic measures in treatment, habilitation and rehabilitation, Fall 2024, subject responsible
- FYS210, Knowledge handeling in physiotheraphy , Fall 2024
- FYS390, Bachelor's thesis, Fall 2024
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