Teaching Course: 'Motor & Cognitive Fatigability'
This teaching course will provide a
taxonomy of fatigue, distinguishing trait and state fatigue where state fatigue
refers to fatigability. Fatigability is defined as a change in perceived
fatigue or objective performance of a task which can be situated in the motor
or cognitive domain.
In this teaching course, we present the
framework of fatigability and ongoing
research, exemplify methodologies for measuring fatigability, discuss findings
and clinical experience on the presence and relevance of fatigability in
persons with MS, including the relation to fatigue.
The overall outline of the teaching course:
1) Taxonomy of Fatigue, and
definition of fatigability
2) Motor fatigability at the ICF
body function (muscular, energy cost) and activity level (walking and upper
extremity)
Measurement methods, Research findings, Workshop
3) Cognitive fatigability at the
ICF body function level
Measurement methods, Research findings, Workshop
4) Relation between fatigability
and fatigue
5) Discussions on implications for
clinical practice and potential rehabilitation interventions
6) Take home messages
Educational team, with a background in
Rehabilitation Sciences & Physiotherapy, Movement Sciences, Exercise Physiology,
Neuropsychology
- Prof. Peter Feys, PhD student Fanny Van Geel, PhD student Kyra Theunissen, Msc Mieke D'Hooghe*
- Ass. Prof. Ulrik Dalgas, Dep. Public Health, Aarhus University Denmark
- PhD student Cintia Ramari, Faculty of Physical Education, University of Brasilia, Brasilia, Brazil
- Prof. Roshan Das Nair, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
Detailed programme
10:30 |
Welcome
by Peter Feys
Introduction to Fatigue & fatigability: Taxonomy
by Fanny Van Geel
|
10:45 |
Motor Fatigability
|
11:30 |
Cognitive Fatigability
|
12:00 | Lunch |
12:30 |
Workshop: outcome measures
|
13:15 | Group experiences & Reflections |
References(1-5)
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2. Severijns D,
Zijdewind I, Dalgas U, Lamers I, Lismont C, Feys P. The Assessment of Motor
Fatigability in Persons With Multiple Sclerosis: A Systematic Review.
Neurorehabil Neural Repair. 2017;31(5):413-31.
3. Van Geel F,
Veldkamp R, Severijns D, Dalgas U, Feys P. Day-to-day reliability, agreement
and discriminative validity of measuring walking-related performance
fatigability in persons with multiple sclerosis. Mult Scler.
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4. Severijns D,
Cuypers K, Meesen R, Feys P, Zijdewind I. Force decline after low and high
intensity contractions in persons with multiple sclerosis. Clin Neurophysiol.
2019;130(3):359-67.
5. Severijns D, Van Geel F, Feys P. Motor fatigability in
persons with multiple sclerosis: Relation between different upper limb muscles,
and with fatigue and the perceived use of the arm in daily life. Mult Scler
Relat Disord. 2017;19:90-5.