Health and Rehabilitation

Education

We are responsible for the degree programmes for future physiotherapists, occupational therapists, audiologists and speech and language pathologists, as well as second-cycle courses and postgraduate studies. For information about the possibilities for exchange studies at one of the programmes (physiotherapy, occupational therapy, audiology or speech and language pathology), please visit Sahlgrenska Academy's information for incoming exchange students.

Our research

We focus on knowledge regarding the habilitation and rehabilitation of children and adults with disabilities. The objective is to promote health and development and to increase opportunities for activity and participation in social and professional life.

Audiology

• Research in audiology
  Principal Investigator: André Sadeghi

• Auditory function in healthy young adults
  Principal Investigator: Ulf Rosenhall

• Audiovestibular consequences of human fetal noise exposure
  Principal Investigator: Ulf Rosenhall

Occupational health

Research groups

• ProDo - Research on the process of doing
  Principal Investigator: Marie Peny-Dahlstrand 
• TIDAS – Health, sick leave and return to work 
  Principal Investigator: Kristina Holmgren

Projects

• Aging as an immigrant in Sweden – SAIE
  Principal Investigator: Susanne Gustafsson
• User involvement in research on ageing and health
  Principal Investigator: Qarin Lood 
• Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment for Frail Older People in Swedish Acute Care Settings
  Principal Investigator: Isabelle Andersson Hammar

• Intervention based on photos for promotion of work ability and health when having stress related illness
  Principal Investigator: Birgitta Gunnarsson

Physiotherapy

Research groups

• Physiotherapy directed to improve function in persons with generalised pain, fibromyalgia, or rheumatoid disease
  Principal Investigator: Kaisa Mannerkorpi

• Applied and clinical respiratory physiology
  Principal Investigator: Monika Fagevik Olsén

Projects

• GOTVED - tidigt understödd hemgång efter stroke (Anna Danielsson)

• Hjärtrehabilitering (Åsa Cider)

• Kvinnors hälsa i rörelse 
  Principal Investigator: Annelie Gutke

• SALGOT - Stroke Arm Longitudinal Study
  Principal Investigator: Anna Danielsson

• Sköra äldre personers fysiska förmåga (Eva Holmgren)

Speech and language pathology

Research projects

• Impaired reading and writing ability due to aphasia caused by stroke or by low-grade glioma
  Principal Investigator: Ingrid Henriksson
• Difficulties finding words in stroke and progressive neurological diseases
  Principal Investigator: Charlotta Saldert & Francesca Longoni
• Speech and communication disorders in children and adolescents with velopharyngeal dysfunction
  Principal Investigator: Christina Persson
• Speech and communication disorders in different progressive neurological conditions
  Principal Investigator: Lena Hartelius