MEDICAL REHABILITATION GONIOMETRICAL SYSTEM

A Modular Case-Mix Classification System for Medical Rehabilitation Illustrated

The authors present a modular set of patient classification systems designed for medical rehabilitation that predict resource use and outcomes for clinically similar groups of individuals. The systems, based on the Functional Independence Measure, are referred to as Function-Related Groups (FIM-FRGs). Using data from 23,637 lower extremity fracture patients from 458 inpatient medical rehabilita...

Recent advances in medical rehabilitation.

During the war the shortage of manpower directed the attention of allied medicine to what has come to be recognized as the third phase of medical care, the phase that takes the patient from the bed or the Out-patients Department to the job. This includes physical and medical rehabilitation, social adjustment, vocational guidance and re-training where indicated. These Service developments are ap...

Medical Rehabilitation in Hereditary Neuropathies

SEFRE: Semiexoskeleton Rehabilitation System

SEFRE (Shoulder-Elbow-Forearm Robotics Economic) rehabilitation system is presented in this paper. SEFRE Rehab System is composed of a robotic manipulator and an exoskeleton, so-called Forearm Supportive Mechanism (FSM). The controller of the system is developed as the Master PC consisting of five modules, that is, Intelligent Control (IC), Patient Communication (PC), Training with Game (TG), P...

Auditory System Rehabilitation

In this article some of the different technologies and its functioning as well as some technological aids for people with partial or total auditory deficiency will be presented. The objective of the auditory rehabilitation is to develop the capacity of auditory perception to the individual carrying auditory deficiency, with aid of devices that can amplify the sound. Between these devices, we ci...