Clinical Enhanced Rehabilitation and Brain Recovery Advancements (CEREBRA) – Susanne Palmcrantz's research group

Our research spans mechanisms, medical technology, treatment, and implementation, with the overall aim of improving rehabilitation after acquired brain injury. We investigate factors underlying recovery, develop and evaluate innovative technologies for the assessment and treatment of motor impairments, examine the effectiveness of novel rehabilitation interventions, and facilitate the implementation of research findings into evidence-based clinical practice.

Part of the:

The group’s research focuses on four main areas:

  1. Mechanisms: focusing on injury localization, plasticity and neuromuscular functions and how these are associated and can predict the course of recovery after acquired brain injury.
  2. Medical technologies: development and testing of new medical technologies for assessment and treatment of motor impairment after acquired brain injury.
  3. Treatment: evaluation of the effects of using new clinical methods for the rehabilitation of motor impairments after acquired brain injury.
  4. Implementation: communication of results and facilitation of implementation in clinical practice.
     

Thesis projects

Current projects

Development of new treatment strategies to enhance recovery after stroke, based on laboratory movement analysis and structured clinical assessments of gait function and walking

The effect of using functional electric stimulation for the recovery of dorsiflexion during rehabilitation of gait function, in the subacute phase after stroke- a randomized controlled exploratory study

Neuroplastic changes and effects of intermittent theta burst stimulation (iTBS) on motor recovery of upper and lower extremity in chronic stroke patients

Doctoral theses

2022

2021

2020

Publications

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Staff and contact

Susanne Palmcrantz

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