Dr. Huub van Hedel

 

Main Goals, Keywords

My main goals are to optimize sensory-motor learning in children and adults with neurological disorders, to develop outcome measures required for clinical trials and rehabilitation and to evaluate the effectiveness of various rehabilitation interventions, including the clinical application of robots.

Keywords: Pediatrics, spinal cord injury, walking function, hand function, adaptive locomotor behaviour, outcome measures, rehabilitation intervention.

Group Members

1 senior research fellow, 3 PhD students, 2 research associates

Previous and Current Research

My previous research focussed on the development and validation of outcome measures to evaluate clinical trials and rehabilitation in the field of spinal cord injury. My current research continues with outcome research, especially for the field of pediatric neurorehabilitation. In addition, motor learning in children and adolescents and the evaluation of the effectiveness of existing and new active rehabilitation interventions, including the use of rehabilitation robotics, are investigated.

Future Projects

Future projects are focussed on optimizing the rehabilitation process of children and adolescents.

Techniques and Equipment

Clinical outcome measures, Gaitrite, EMG, rehabilitation robots for the upper and lower extremity, NIRS, EEG.

Selected Publications

• Labruyère R, Zimmerli M, van Hedel HJ. Slowed Down: Response Time Deficits in Well-Recovered Subjects With Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury. Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 2013 Apr 18. doi:pii: S0003-9993(13)00306-7. 10.1016/j.apmr.2013.04.002. [Epub ahead of print]
• Riener R, Dislaki E, Keller U, Koenig A, Van Hedel H, Nagle A. Virtual reality aided training of combined arm and leg movements of children with CP. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2013;184:349-55.
• van Hedel HJ. Editorial note on: agreement of repeated motor and sensory scores at individual myotomes and dermatomes in young persons with spinal cord injury. Spinal Cord. 2013 Jan;51(1):82. doi: 10.1038/sc.2012.129. Epub 2012 Oct 30.
• van Hedel HJ, Kumru H, Röhrich F, Galen S; EM-SCI Study Group. Changes in electrical perception threshold within the first 6 months after traumatic spinal cord injury: a multicenter responsiveness study. Neurorehabil Neural Repair. 2012 Jun;26(5):497-506. doi: 10.1177/1545968311423669. Epub 2011 Dec 16.

Selected Lectures, Seminars or Colloquia

• Bewegungs- und Trainingslehre II: Motorik und Querschnittlähmung (IBWS, ETH Zurich)
• Structural Plasticity and Repair of the Nervous System (BIO 343)

Funding

International Spinal Research Trust, London; EMDO Foundation, Zurich; Betty and David Koetser Foundation, Zurich

URL

http://www.kispi.uzh.ch/Rehabilitationszentrum/RehabResearchGroup_de.html