Rehabilitation Robotics

Rehabilitation Robotics

Robotics: A Rehabilitation Modality.

Assistive and rehabilitation robotics

Assistive robotics aims at developing solutions (mechatronic devices, systems and technologies) to assist and interact with individuals with reduced motor or cognitive abilities in order to increase their autonomy in a personal environment. Rehabilitation robotics proposes similar solutions for assisted therapy and objective functional assessment of these patients usually in a clinical context ...

Robotics in shoulder rehabilitation.

In the last few decades, several researches have been conducted in the field of robotic rehabilitation to meet the intensive, repetitive and task-oriented training, with the goal to recover the motor function. Up to now, robotic rehabilitation studies of the upper extremity have generally focused on stroke survivors leaving less explored the field of orthopaedic shoulder rehabilitation. In this...

Mri - Compatible Robotics for Rehabilitation Induced Recovery

Annually, fifteen million people worldwide suffer a stroke, of which five million are left permanently disabled. Most patients show a certain degree of spontaneous or therapy induced recovery over time after the damage to their nervous system. This can be attributed to brain plasticity in the sense that cortical areas adjacent or distant to the lesion take over the function of the damaged neura...