Dr. Cathrine Widehammar
Cathrine is an occupational therapist and Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine and Health at Örebro University. She holds a combined position that, in addition to teaching at the university, includes clinical work at the Limb Deficiency and Arm Prosthesis Center at Örebro University Hospital, as well as research. Cathrine has extensive experience in hand therapy and prosthetic rehabilitation.
Her research focuses on the use of myoelectric arm prostheses, and in 2021 she defended her doctoral thesis entitled “Benefit and Use of Myoelectric Arm Prostheses: Outcomes, Influencing Factors, and Experiences.” Among other things, she has investigated optimal ways of learning to use multifunctional prostheses and has developed a training method for upper limb prosthesis use.
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Selected Publications
Lendaro, E., Van der Sluis, C. K., Hermansson, L., Bunketorp-Käll, L., Burger, H., Keesom, E., Widehammar, C., Munoz-Novoa, M., McGuire, B. E., O.’ Reilly, P., Earley, E. J., Iqbal, S., Kristoffersen, M. B., Stockselius, A., Gudmundson, L., Hill, W., Diers, M., Turner, K. L., Weiss, T., & Ortiz-Catalan, M. (2025). Extended reality used in the treatment of phantom limb pain: a multicenter, double-blind, randomized controlled trial. PAIN, 166(3), 571-586. https://doi.org/10.1097/j.pain.0000000000003384
Widehammar, C., Hiyoshi, A., Holmqvist, L. K., Lindner, H., & Hermansson, L. (2021). Effect of multi-grip myoelectric prosthetic hands on daily activities, pain-related disability and prosthesis use compared with single-grip myoelectric prostheses: A single-case study. Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine. https://doi.org/10.2340/jrm.v53.807
Widehammar, C., Holmqvist, K. L., & Hermansson, L. (2021). Training for users of myoelectric multigrip hand prostheses: a scoping review. Prosthetics and Orthotics International, 45(5), 393–400. https://doi.org/10.1097/pxr.0000000000000037
Lendaro, E., Hermansson, L., Burger, H., Van der Sluis, C. K., McGuire, B. E., Pilch, M., Bunketorp-Käll, L., Kulbacka-Ortiz, K., Rignér, I., Stockselius, A., Gudmundson, L., Widehammar, C., Hill, W., Geers, S., & Ortiz-Catalan, M. (2018). Phantom motor execution as a treatment for phantom limb pain: protocol of an international, double-blind, randomised controlled clinical trial. BMJ Open, 8(7), e021039. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-021039
Widehammar, C., Pettersson, I., Janeslätt, G., & Hermansson, L. (2017). The influence of environment: Experiences of users of myoelectric arm prosthesis—a qualitative study. Prosthetics and Orthotics International, 42(1), 28–36. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309364617704801