Staff Directory

Associate Professor Julie Bernhardt

Division Head, Stoke. ARC Future Fellow

Stroke

Julie is Director of the AVERT Early Intervention Research Program.  The main aim of this program is to develop new, evidence-based rehabilitation interventions that may reduce the significant burden of stroke related disability.  AVERT, the largest acute stroke rehabilitation trial, which will include over 2000 stroke patients, is at the core of this program. Understanding how early, exercise-based interventions after stroke may work to alter bone, muscle and brain is the focus of a number of substudies.

Publications

Listed below are Associate Professor Julie Bernhardt’s ten most recent publications.

1. West T, Bernhardt J.
   Physical activity in hospitalised stroke patients. Stroke Research and Treatment 2012;813765: PMID: 21966599
2. Askim T, Bernhardt J, Loge AD, Indredavik B.
   Stroke patients do not need to be inactive in the first 2 weeks after stroke: results from a stroke unit focused on early rehabilitation. International Journal of Stroke 2012;7(1):25-31. PMID: 22103927
3. English C, Thoirs K, Fisher L, McLennan H, Bernhardt J.
   Ultrasound is a reliable measure of muscle thickness in acute stroke patients, for some, but not all anatomical sites: A study of the intra-rater reliability of muscle thickness measures in acute stroke patients. Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology 2012;38(3):368-376. PMID: 22266233
4. Mead G and Bernhardt J.
   Physical fitness training after stroke: time to implement what we know, but more research is needed. Leading opinion. International Journal of Stroke 2011;6(6):506-8. PMID: 22111794
5. Sjoholm A, Skarin M, Linden T, Bernhardt J.
   Does evidence really matter? Professionals’ opinions on the practice of early mobilization after stroke. Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare 2011;4:367-376. PMID: 22096341
6. van Wijk R, Cumming T, Churilov L, Donnan G, Bernhardt J.
   An early mobilisation protocol delivers more and earlier therapy to acute stroke patients: Further results from Phase II of AVERT. Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair 2011;26(1):20-6. PMID: 21807984
7. Luker J, Wall K, Bernhardt J, Edwards I, Grimmer-Somers K.
   Patients' age as a determinant of care received following acute stroke: A systematic review. BMC Health Services Research 2011;11(1):161. PMID: 21729329
8. Banks G, Bernhardt J, Churilov L, Cumming T.
   Exercise preferences are different after stroke. Stroke Research and Treatment. 2011;2012:1-9. PMID: 21860809
9. Hillier S, English C, Crotty M, Esterman A, Segal L, Bernhardt J. Esterman A.
   Circuit class or seven day therapy for increasing intensity of rehabilitation after stroke. Protocol of the CIRCIT trial. International Journal of Stroke 2011;6:560-565. PMID: 22111802
10. Borschmann K, Pang MY, Bernhardt J. Iuliano-Burns S.
    Stepping towards prevention of bone loss after stroke: A systematic review of the skeletal effects of physical activity after stroke. International Journal of Stroke 2011; PMID: 21967614