Hope to meet you all in Hasselt for a great learning and netwerking experience 🤓

12 weeks of telecoaching did not improve physical activity in patients with ILD. Future intervention are needed to increase physical activity in these patients! Great work of Sofie Breuls and Tamara Zlamalova! Thierry Troosters KU Leuven PhysioTher Vakgroep Revalidatiewetenschappen UGent

Firri symposium is approaching 🎉 📢Our first keynote speaker: Prof. dr. Edgard Eeckman - chair vzw Patient Empowerment Belgium: Patient empowerment, lever of patient engagement --> Register by April 18th: firri.be FIRRI

⚠️Second keynote for our symposium 👤Prof. dr. Katrien De Cocker from UGhent “The role of healthcare professionals in enhancing patients’ motivation: How can theory and empirical evidence inform our practice?” Don't forget to register 👉 firri.be FIRRI

Warming up the venue for our symposium tomorrow 🙌 Looking forward to welcoming you! 🎉 FIRRI

Last friday I presented my work: "associations bewteen parental and child #physicalactivity behaviour in youth with #CysticFibrosis" and I am proud to have won the “Audience award” at the 2024 congress of FIRRI

Give it up for our symposium winners 🎉 Paulien Mellaerts -best presentation award Manon Kinaupenne - audience award Fien Hermans - best poster award FIRRI

To all colleagues in the field of PR, respiratory and cancer science 👇free webinar on fatigue in CRD and cancer. Please share within your network 📷

⚠️Pub alert This study shows lower #physicalactivity levels and functional performance for youth with #CysticFibrosis, indicating the urgent need for interventions promoting PA in this population. 👉full text: authors.elsevier.com/c/1jaBX3P3QuyT…

Great to hear solutions for our struggles with accelerometer cutpoints, by Jairo Migueles, visiting us for a lecture and GGIR workshop. ⁦PA & Health⁩

On October 16th the Flemish #PhDCup final takes place! 🎓🏆 Congrats to Astrid Blondeel who reached the semi-finals and wrote an EOS blog on a new treatment for patients with #COPD 🫁 Read it here 👉🏻 eoswetenschap.eu/gezondheid/een… Join the PhD Cup final here 👉🏻 phdcup.be/finale-2024

To all respiratory PTs: don’t forget to register for the next Belgian Respiratory Society respiratory physiotherpay day on December 7th! We are very happy to welcome all these great presenters! @MariekeWuyts, Prof. Ioannis Vogiatzis, Daniel Langer, Jana DB, G Joos, T Nawrot and B Vrijsen

Thank you #ISPAH2024 for the opportunity to share my research in Paris 🇫🇷

Exciting days at the #ISPAH Congress in Paris! 🇫🇷 Marga Decraene presented her work on the movement behavior in preschoolers and their parents, and Manon Kinaupenne shared her research on promoting #physicalactivity in children with cystic fibrosis 🤩 Taking steps forward! 🏃🏼‍♀️🏃🏼‍♂️

Meet our team! 👋 Meet Manon Kinaupenne, PhD student at Ghent University! Her research focuses on improving physical activity levels in youth with #CysticFibrosis using both qualitative and quantitative methods 🫁 Want to know more? 👉 researchgate.net/profile/Manon-…

Proud to see this chapter of my PhD published in Journal of CF

SAFE THE DATE!! 🚨🚨 First webinar of the year: Breathlessness in Internal Diseases! 🫁 📅 12th of February, 2025, 6.00-7.15 PM Keep an eye open for our 2 speakers 👀 Registration: forms.gle/zW1sQAW6dXnJgD…

Cheers to an amazing year ahead for FIRRI in 2025! 🥂 We’re expanding collaborations with research groups across Belgium 🇧🇪 and keep exchanging scientific knowledge 🔬. We’ll be hosting 2 webinars and a symposium “From Aging to Infinity: Innovations in Rehabilitation and Beyond”.

📢 Registration and abstract submission are open!📢 🧐 Symposium: "From Aging to Infinity: Innovations in Rehabilitation and Beyond" 🗓️ 4th of April 📍 Campus Erasmus, ULB, Brussels 📝 Accepted abstracts will be presented at the symposium (oral/poster). firri.be/symposium/

🚀 What an amazing start of the year! Our first #webinar of 2025 was a great success! Prof. Magnus Ekström and Prof. Andreas von Leupoldt shared their expertise on the physiology and psychology of #breathlessness 🌬️ Thank you all for your enthusiasm and attendance!