The Institute of Health Sciences brings together the core competences in courses offered by the Department of Health Sciences – dietetics, digital healthcare, healthcare and nursing, and physiotherapy – in three complementary and interdisciplinary research topics.
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Health Promotion & Healthy Ageing
Interdisciplinary health promotion and disease prevention programmes
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Clinical & Healthcare Research
Research, evaluation and development work aimed at improving dietetic, nursing and physiotherapy practice
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Education & Lifelong Learning for Health Professionals
High-quality, technology-based training and development solutions for the healthcare professions
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Selected projects
NUMOQUA - Nutrition and movement to improve quality of life with knee osteoarthritis
Combining exercise therapy with nutritional therapy to improve the quality of life of patients with osteoarthritis.
ELSA- Evaluation of simple gait analysis devices
Evaluation of the effectiveness of rehabilitation measures after reconstruction of the anterior cruciate ligament using simplified gait analysis
IntelliGait 3D- Gait Data Mining
Establishing advanced analysis methods for modelling, classification and similarity retrieval of gait patterns to enable novel data-driven ways to access 3D gait databases
MLKOA- Motor Learning in Knee Osteoarthritis Therapy
Investigating a new treatment approach for patients with knee osteoarthritis
FIVE - #Fitspiration Image VErification
Proof of Concept of an interdisciplinary online-course offering guidance on how to deal critically with information provided by social media sites.
DIRENE - Competences for the new era of user-driven digital innovation in rehabilitation
Addresses the need for furthering digital rehabilitation and the competences it requires
INPRO - ¡nterprofessionalism in action!
Aligning interprofessional education and collaboration in practice, using promising regional experiences for international exchange
IMPECD - Improvement of Education and Competences in Dietetics
Networking and further development of training and teaching programmes in dietetics/dietology
ReMoCap-Lab
The „Laboratory for Capturing Motion and Augmenting Environment in Motor Rehabilitation“ will enable innovative projects and excellent research in Austria
Consultation material for nutrition counselling – by dieticians for dieticians
Illustrated and comprehensive advisory material to support dieticians in their daily work.
IntelliGait – Intelligent Gait Analysis
Automatic gait pattern analysis for robust classification of functional deficits. Intelligait aims at developing automated methods to analyze and classify gait patterns.
Train & Win - "FitDaheim"
“FitDaheim” is a new training programme, based on physiotherapy and ergotherapy. The programme is supposed to promote movement within the target group of senior citizens and function as a prophyla...
AVATAR
Augmented and virtual reality to support prosthetic rehabilitation
The Children's KNEEs Study
The aim of the Children’s KNEEs Study is to analyze altered biomechanical movement strategies in obese children during walking and stair climbing and to develop a specific training program for them.