Institute of
Health Sciences

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.
Key Focus

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

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.

IMPECD-Improvement of Education and Competences in Dietetics

Networking and further development of training and teaching programmes in dietetics/dietology

MLKOA- Motor Learning in Knee Osteoarthritis Therapy

Investigating a new treatment approach for patients with knee osteoarthritis

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...

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.

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News

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06/26/2020

A Data Treasure for Gait Analysis

12/13/2019

Erasmus+ Award 2019 Goes to St. Pölten UAS

11/05/2019

Health Sciences: Interest in Cooperation