Queen Margaret University

Dr Frederike van Wijck is a lecturer in Physiotherapy in the School of Health Sciences. Her research concentrates on skill acquisition strategies aimed at improving arm function after stroke. Current work comprises two systematic reviews, one on the effects of robot-mediated therapy on arm function and one on bilateral simultaneous task practice after stroke. She is involved in a number of clinical trials, including an HTA-funded study evaluating the effects of botulinum toxin on arm function and spasticity in stroke, for which she designed the therapy intervention and a Remedi-funded project investigating the acquisition of a dynamic perceptuo-motor task after stroke. Previously, she was involved in an EU Thematic Network on the assessment of arm function in people with acquired brain lesions with Prof. Garth Johnson, resulting in the standardised guidelines for a number of commonly used clinical outcome measures. Together with Prof. Garth Johnson and Dr. Anand D Pandyan, she took part in another EU-funded Thematic Network “Support Programme for Assembly of Database for Spasticity Measurement (SPASM”). Through the Rehabilitation Clinical Studies Group of the Stroke Research Network, she is involved in a further two grant applications for multicentre RCTs investigating functional task practice for the affected upper limb after stroke.