Theme lead
Kira Marie Skibdal
Clinical Development Physiotherapist for physiotherapists in the orthopedic group.
Focus
Hospitalized patients:
Implement and develop interventions for optimizing early rehabilitation and mobilization after surgery among fragile patients, hip fracture patients, patients with lower extremity amputations, traumatic multi-fractured patients, and others with upper and lower extremity fractures.
Assessment of functional limitations and compensatory strategies, guidance in the delivery of assistive devices, and assessment of the need for further rehabilitation.
Systematic assessment of physical capacity and functional impairment.
Optimization of interdisciplinary communication within the hospital and across primary and secondary health sectors to achieve optimal and evidence-based rehabilitation.
Ongoing focus on quality assurance of our documentation practices and continuous reporting to national clinical quality databases.
Outpatients:
Provide high-quality physiotherapy services based on up-to-date evidence and best practices to sports orthopedic patients and patients with complex pre- and postoperative symptoms in close collaboration with orthopedic surgeons.
Implement and support research to optimize early specialized rehabilitation in close collaboration with orthopedic surgeons and researchers.
Ongoing focus on quality assurance of documentation practices.
Pre-instruction in the early initiation of postoperative exercises, pain management, and return to daily activities and sports prior to arthroscopic surgeries of the shoulder, knee, and hip.
Examples of ongoing work:
Participation in the development of a national clinical quality databases for leg amputations (DANAMP)
Participation in the development and implementation of research programs across the hospital in cooperation with Physical- and Occupational Therapy, Orthopedic Surgery and Clinical Research at Copenhagen University Hospital, Amager and Hvidovre: E.g., SAGA and DRAW-TKA research programs.
Participation in the research program HIP-ME-UP leaded by: Maria Swennergren Hansen, PT, PhD, Postdoc : Understanding and explaining clinical practice regarding basic mobility and physical activity in patients following a hip fracture. The HIP-ME-UP research program.
Selected outputs
The orthopedic group participates in the development of new post-operative rehabilitation protocols, the updating of existing ones, and the dissemination of content across sectors in collaboration with Sport Orthopedic Research Center – Copenhagen (SORC-C)