Movement, Activity and Health – Eva Broström's research group

The research group is linked to the Medical Unit for Highly Specialized Pediatric Orthopedics and Pediatric Medicine at Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital. It has a multidisciplinary composition consisting of physiotherapists, orthopedists, orthopedic engineers, and biomechanical engineers.

Movement, Activity and Health
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Movement, Activity and Health

With our research, we want to increase knowledge about how children's development and various treatment interventions can affect the lives of children with chronic illnesses.

Development and Treatment
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Development and Treatment

Team Ann-Christin Eliasson

With our research, we want to increase our knowledge of how child development and different treatment interventions can affect the lives of children diagnosed with cerebral palsy (CP). Our research group has a broad interdisciplinary approach and is closely connected to the Neuropediatric Clinic at Astrid Lindgren's Children's Hospital, with many international partners.

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Motor skills, sensory skills and intervention

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Orthopedic Surgery and Treatment

Team Johan von Heideken

This research aims to understand and evaluate treatments for pediatric orthopedic conditions, focusing primarily on children, and to investigate the long-term impact of these conditions on individuals who were affected during childhood, including their function in adulthood.

Experimental Orthopedics
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Experimental Orthopedics

The research in the "Experimental Orthopedics" team aims to increase knowledge about the functional and biomechanical consequences of joint injuries, joint diseases, and skeletal deformities in children and adults.

 

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Pediatric platform for research, education and clinical development work

We are a knowledge center with expertise in modern movement analysis, measurement methods and digitalization in healthcare for children and adolescents. We offer support for planning, data collection and analysis.

What we do

ISO certified

The clinical Gait Analysis unit, which is a part of the orthopaedic department, is certified according to ISO 9001 since 2010. The research group Motion and Gait analysis is an integrated part of the ISO 9001 certification.

Our goal is to contribute to and transfer research findings from both clinical and medical areas to physiotherapy, ortopedics and orthotics, as well as other associated clinical fields.

The overall aim is to enhance the management level for both children and adults, in particular, to improve diagnosing, simplify choice of treatment, methods, evaluate treatment outcome and assure high treatment quality in children and adults with motor disorder.

We will take part in exploring and explaining compensatory strategies to find solutions and measures for a high participation level:

  • Development and improvement of biomechanical models with respect to the human movement functions
  • Improve function and reduce secondary problems among the various natural stories
  • Development of assessment tools which measure treatment effects
  • Deepen the knowledge of various factors influence and how they interact, e.g. joint contractures/swelling, spasticity, muscle strength and spatial orientation/navigation
  • Investigate subjective pain and its influence on movement
  • Evaluate effects of medical treatment with respect to walking function

Research projects

  • Function - a biomechanical perspective
  • Motion and walking function in children with motor disorder
  • Goal directed therapy (GDT)
  • Biomechanics of human movement

PhD projects

  • Idiopathic toe-walking (ITW) in children
  • Arthrogryposis Multiplex Congenita
  • Gait deviations - inflammatory joint diseases
  • Posture in children with bilateral cerebral palsy
  • Hip and knee osteoarthritis
  • Knee arthroplasty - a gender perspective
  • Paediatric femur shaft fractures
  • Ankle injury and deformity
  • Knee function in children

Publications

All publications from group members

Staff and contact

Group leader

All members of the group