Activities during the last year

Organisation of public events

1. Start of preparations for the Summer School Neurorehabilitation (SSNR) from June 8 to 11, 2026, at the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald (with support from the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Foundation / third-party funding), in hybrid form (preferably in person, but also digitally).

2. The lectures from the Summer School Neurorehabilitation 2024 were made available in 2025 as “e-learning” via a hosting area of the University Medicine Greifswald / AG Neurorehabilitation as a “streaming” offer for registered users (since the end of 2024).

3. Under the motto "Under one D-A-CH: Evidence, Practice, and Innovation," the German (DGNR), Austrian (OeGNR), and Swiss Societies for Neurorehabilitation (SGNR) invited participants to their joint annual conference from December 4 to 6, 2025 (congress presidency with significant involvement in planning and preparation).

Projects

  1. Evaluation of policy proposals for hospital reform, both internally at the BDH and within the DGNR Presidium; preparation of a BDH statement on minimum case requirements (with regard to early neurological rehabilitation and intensive care medicine)
  2. Joint project “E-BRAiN: Evidence-based robot assistance in neurorehabilitation” (www.ebrain-science.de): in 2025, evaluation of the clinical trial in Greifswald UMG & BDH Hospital, preparation of a final report for the BfArM.
  3. GBA Innovation Fund – “Optimization of post-clinical intensive care for neurological patients (OptiNIV)”, start of project 01.08.2021, duration until 31.07.2025: The project aimed to improve the long-term treatment outcomes of neurological patients in out-of-hospital intensive care (AIP) through successful weaning from mechanical ventilation and/or tracheal cannula (TK). To this end, diagnostic and treatment pathways at the interface between inpatient neurorehabilitation and out-of-hospital intensive care were developed, implemented, and evaluated. The project was carried out by early neurological rehabilitation facilities in Bavaria under the direction of Professor Dr. Bender (LMU, University of Augsburg, and Burgau Therapy Center) in cooperation with AOK Bayern. The evaluation of the treatment and its results (clinical and health economic) was carried out under the leadership of Prf. Platz and the Neurorehabilitation Working Group at Greifswald University Hospital together with Prof. Dr. Kohlmann, Institute for Community Medicine, Greifswald University Hospital, and Prof. Dr. Fleßa, Chair of General Business Administration and Health Management, University of Greifswald. In the summer of 2025, Prof. Platz carried out the complex statistical evaluation of the clinical study and, with the participation of other working groups in Greifswald, prepared a formal evaluation report for the G-BA and made the data analyses available for publication (in preparation).
  4. Guideline project: Treatment of spastic syndrome – DGN/DGNR S2k (coordination: Platz [DGN]/Liepert [DGNR]; the update was completed and the guideline published in QI 2025.
  5. Guideline project: Arm rehabilitation after stroke – DGNR S3 (coordination: Platz); after electronic literature search in 2024, procurement of literature and review of relevant new publications for the guideline in 2025 with the assistance of a medical doctoral student. The main work of evidence assessment and synthesis is planned for 2026, if possible also the revision of the guideline text and the interdisciplinary consensus process.
  6. Guideline project Weaning in neurological-neurosurgical rehabilitation – DGNR S2k (coordination Schmidt-Wilcke); participation in the guideline revision as author in 2024; the guideline was published in 2025.
  7. Guideline project Care of persons with extra-clinical intensive care needs for neurological diseases – DGNR S2k (coordination Groß); conceptual support for the guideline in 2025.
  8. Supervisory support for the certification of centers for weaning in neurological-neurosurgical early rehabilitation as a member of the DGNR certification committee (regular review of certification standards and audit reports). 
  9. Organization and support of the update of the international evidence-based practice recommendations for stroke rehabilitation of the World Federation of Neurorehabilitation, WFNR, as project manager with 14 working groups; start in 2024, completion targeted for mid-2026.
  10. Co-chairing an international scientific working group, the Lancet Commission on Neurorehabilitation (in collaboration with the WFNR, the World Stroke Organization, and the WHO), with the aim of analyzing the situation and evidence and developing and establishing pragmatic solutions for neurorehabilitation worldwide.
  11. Design and organization of an online certificate training course by the World Federation of Neurorehabilitation on evidence-based practice recommendations for stroke rehabilitation (from August to November 2025).