MOVEMENT We focus on providing care related to movement, function and participation, centred on the patient at various stages of life. An innovative approach enables us to offer the right care in the right place. We make our tertiary healthcare knowledge about common conditions available to patients and primary care professionals. Joint research by carers and researchers leads to a focused search for solutions to patients’ day-to-day problems. The interdisciplinary approach within the Centrum voor Bewegen Centre for Movement enables us to take the quality of care, research and education to ever higher levels. MOVING WITHOUT PAIN Arthrosis is a major social problem, with no fewer than 1.5 million Dutch people currently suffering from the condition. Although the chance of having arthrosis increases with age, young people are also increasingly developing it. There is no real treatment for it – or is there? A Maastricht research team has discovered in the laboratory how the loss of healthy cartilage (the cause of arthrosis) can be prevented. In the project ‘Moving without Pain’, doctors and scientists are working on further developing a tiny piece of protein that has a particularly positive effect on affected cartilage. CHRONIC DISEASES We are working on a broad, integrated care and research network for chronic diseases (non-communicable diseases, NCDs). The most developed programmes are those for diabetes and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). NCDs frequently occur together (clustering). For this reason, we are also concentrating on chronic cardiac insufficiency (see under Cardiovascular diseases) and chronic kidney, liver, intestinal and rheumatic diseases. Common themes are a holistic and individualised approach, the influence of lifestyle, living environment and psychosocial factors, and rehabilitation tailored to the patient and the stage of the disease. We also focus on prevention and the identification of risk groups. Our research on the effects of the living environment, psychosocial aspects and lifestyle factors is of excellent quality. We can identify and monitor people who are at risk at an early stage. Based on the unique characteristics of each patient, we develop targeted therapies. CIRO CIRO+ (a partnership between Maastricht UMC+ and the Proteion Thuis Foundation) specialises in treating people with chronic lung diseases such as COPD and asthma, as well as cardiac insufficiency and sleep-related respiratory disorders. CIRO+ works closely with medical specialists in secondary care and GPs. Specialised treatments at CIRO+ are customised, so that the complete programme matches the needs of the patient. The patient is part of the team of specialists, so that the best-possible results can be achieved. In this way, a patient once again becomes a specialist regarding his or her own life. The data centre of CIRO+ puts the care provider and the patient in a position to predict which treatment will be most effective. More than 3,000 patients are now included in the project and the more participants there are, the better the predictive value of the system will become. Because we collect more than 400 variables per person, it is possible to identify connections that were not noticed previously. 19 Healthy Living 2025
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