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Human movement sciences
Insights into the relationship between human movement, functioning and health are essential to improve our quality of life.
Department
Education and research are intensely connected in the department of Human Movement Sciences. PhD's, master and bachelor students work together in an academic learning community and inspiring environment, playing a pivotal role in our research success. Our main research domains are sports sciences and healthy ageing and rehabilitation.
Sport sciences
Physical activity, exercise, and sport play a key and perhaps preventative role in the evolution of chronic diseases. An increased understanding of the relationship between human movement, functioning and health is therefore highly relevant to our quality of life.
Healthy ageing
Falling in the elderly: predicting individual fall risks and developing preventive exercise programmes
The relationship between movement and diseases such as dementia, stroke and Parkinson’s disease
Effects of physical activity and inactivity on cognitive and mental processes (e.g. attention, memory)
Rehabilitation
Recovery of normal skills levels after a stroke or paraplegia
Sensorimotor adaptation processes during the rehabilitation of people with an artificial arm or leg or when learning to operate an arm-drive wheelchair
Children with DCD (Developmental Coordination Disorder) and adults who need to relearn motor skills after a stroke or other impairment of the cognitive/sensorimotor system
