Newly diagnosed?

If you or your child have been diagnosed with a neuromuscular disease, it’s vital to have access to the right information and advice. We’re here to help and support you and your family.

Life-long counselling and guidance through life with a neuromuscular disease

RCFM is a rehabilitation hospital without beds founded by the patient organization Muskelsvindfonden. Individuals and families who live with neuromuscular diseases can get life-long counseling and guidance from us. We also offer information about neuromuscular diseases and their implications to your or you child’s health care providers, school, workplace, etc.

RCFM’s team of counsellors is made up of doctors, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, social workers, nurses and psychologists

The center is recognized as a specialized unit for neuromuscular rehabilitation by the Danish Ministry of Health. We are funded by the Danish regions, and our services are free of charge for our patients. RCFM don’t make diagnoses or carry out treatments.

To get help from RCFM, you must ask your hospital physician or your family doctor for a referral.

How can RCFM help me?

Here you can read about some of the services provided by RCFM. Whenever you need help with something related to your or your child’s diagnosis, you’re welcome to contact us. Sometimes the problem can be solved over the phone, sometimes it’s better to meet face to face.

You can get information about your diagnosis in your own language

TREAT-NMD is an international network of clinicians, scientists, patient advocacy groups and the biomedical industry that aims to accelerate the development of research and therapy, increase international collaboration, and improve patient care.

On the TREAT-NMD website, you can find information about the neuromuscular disease and their development, family-friendly guides to diagnosis and treatment in several languages, and news about research. You can also find information about patient organizations in different countries.

RCFM collaborates with TREAT-NMD on its global registries. With the consent of our patients, we send disease information to the registries in which clinicians, scientists and the biomedical industry can find eligible participants for clinical trials to test new drugs and treatments.

 

Our NMD specialists are ready
to help you

  • Alice Munk

    Psychologist, ph.d.

  • Alon Levy

    Psychologist

  • Ann Dorte Elkjær

    Coordinator

    - Coordination of interdisciplinary meetings
    - Administration
  • Anne Bøgeskov

    Psychologist

  • Anne-Sophie Brandenborg

    Coordinator

    - Coordinator of interdisciplinary meetings
    - Patient education planner
  • Annette Faber Mahoney

    Communications and development, MA English, MA medical anthropology

    - Webeditor
    - Translation
    - Research communication
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  • Bente Kristensen

    Physiotherapist

    - Respiration
    - Exercise
    - Public health
    - Assistive devices
    - Tænder og mund problemer ved NMD
  • Birgitte Heiden

    Physiotherapist

    - Exercise
    - Assistive devices
    - Respiration
  • Charlotte Handberg

    Professor

    - Rehabilitation and palliation
    - Patient involvement
    - Interdisciplinary and intersectional challenges
    - Students and supervision
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  • Hanne BækThorup

    Coordinator

    - Coordination of interdisciplinary meetings
    - Administration
  • Heidi Aagaard

    CEO and chief medical officer

    -MD, specialist in public health medicine
  • Helle Bundgaard Lausten

    Occupational therapist

  • Helle Munkholm

    Occupational therapist

    - Sitting posture
    - School
    - Assistive devices
    - Transportation and home
    - Socialmedicinske problemstillinger
  • Inge Bjerregaard

    Physiotherapist

    - Respiration
    - Exercise
    - Assistive devices
    - Pain management
    - Socialmedicinske problemstillinger

  • Karina Winther

    Psychologist

    - Psychological development in children and youths
    - Cognitive functions
    - Sexual counsellor
    - Grief and crisis
  • Katrine Haugen Larsen

    Psychologist

  • Kent Nyeland Sandholt

    Department Manager, Jutland-Funen

  • Kirsten Løvegaard

    Physiotherapist

    - Sitting posture
    - Exercise
    - Assistive devices
  • Kristin Allergodt

    Ph.D candidate, PT, MSc

  • Kristina Obitsø Aabo

    Social worker

  • Laila Lindhardt

    ALS counsellor, occupational therapist

    - Assistive devices
    - Transportation and home
    - Welfare techonology
  • Lene Busk

    Physiotherapist

    - Respiration
    - Exercise
    - Assistive devices
  • Lene Klem Olesen

    Ph.D, MA educational psychology, occupational therapist,

    - Relatives and health professionals (ALS)
    - Palliative rehabilitation
    - Online rehabilitation
    - Qualitative method
    -projektledelse og formidling
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  • Linda Nielsen

    Physiotherapist

  • Lisbeth Sander Frid

    Administrative specialist

  • Lone Bech Christensen

    Occupational therpist, MSc in rehabilitation

    - Sitting posture
    - Dysphagia
    - School
    - Assistive devicesHjælpemidler
    - Bil og bolig
  • Lone Gertz

    ALS counsellor, physiotherapist, MSC in rehabilitation

    - Respiration
    - Assistive devices
    - Dysphagia
    - Exercise
  • Lone Knudsen

    Phycologist, ph.d, researcher

    - Pain and psychological factors
    - Grief and crisis intervention
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  • Mads Jung-Jensen

    ALS counsellor, nurse

  • Maja Riberfelt

    ALS counsellor, nurse

  • Mathilde Lykkegård Mohrsen

    ALS counsellor, nurse

  • Merete Vægter

    ALS counsellor, nurse, certified family counsellor

    - Respiration
    - Nutrition, oral care, gastro-intestinal management
    - Palliation, grief and crisis
    - Family counselling
  • Mette Makholm Pedersen

    Physician, specialist in public health medicine

  • Mie Ascanius Sørensen

    Occupational therapist

  • Nicolai Blom Pedersen

    Administrative manager

  • Pernille Diemer Hansen

    Physiotherapist

    - Respiration
    - Exersice
    - Assistive devices
    - Oral care
  • Pia Zinck Drivsholm

    Research assistant, PT, MSc

  • Rikke Emilie Appelqvist Klintsø

    Physiotherapist

  • Runa Iversen

    Occupational therapist

  • Sanne Okkels Birk Lorenzen

    Physician

  • Sidsel Madsen

    Consultant physician, specialist in public health medicine

    - Diagnoses and genetics
    - Pregnancy
    - Pharmacological treatmentbehandling
    - Public health medicine
  • Signe Versterre

    Ph.D student, PT, MSc

  • Sine Lyng Pedersen

    Social worker

    - Job and economy
    - Personal and practical help
    - Disability compensation
  • Sine Nydam Sørensen

    Coordinator, BA

    - Coordination of interdisciplinary meetings
    - Administration
  • Sofie Skoubo

    Ph.d student

    - Teleprescence robots
    - Policy
    - Qualitative methods
    - Project management and communicaton
  • Stine Kaysen Moéll

    ALS counsellor, nurse

    - Respiration
    - Nutrition, gastro-intestinal and oral management
  • Stine Løvind Thorsen

    Department manager, Sealand

  • Ulla Werlauff

    Head of research, physical therapist, MSc, ph.d

    - Project management and supervision
    - Measurement instruments
    - Method
    - Education
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Suggested reading

  • About us

    Read about RCFM, its history, services and research

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We are a center of excellence for neuromuscular diseases (NMD).

We believe in seing the entire person with NMD in a life-long perspective. That way, we can help create the best environment for people with NMD and their families. 

We share our knowledge with our patients, their families and our professional partners. We work interdisciplinary and across sectors.

 

Kontakt os

E-mail: [email protected]
Tel: +45 8948 2222

CVR-nr: 88502728

Head quarters
Kongsvang Allé 23
DK-8000 Aarhus C

 

 

Sealand department
Blekinge Boulevard 2, 1.sal
DK-2630 Taastrup