In recent years there has been an increase in the number of people requiring rehabilitation services. The genesis of rehabilitation services has been, in part, a response to the recognition that increasing the quality of life and independence of individuals following trauma, disease or enduring chronic pathology benefits society as a whole, as well as the individual. Human beings also have psyc...

Within the AMaRob research project a complete reference platform for rehabilitation robots named FRIEND was built by an interdisciplinary team of researchers, therapists, engineers and designers. The robotic system was designed to primarily support people with quadriplegic disabilities in domestic and vocational fields. Based on new control concepts for service robotics, the user gains up to 90...

This author’s perspective is possibly unique among the other contributors to this volume because he witnessed the early evolution of rehabilitation engineering in Canada and the United States, first working as a young clinical rehabilitation engineer and later as an academic researcher in both countries. This contribution focuses largely on the Canadian contribution, with emphasis on the politi...

background: disasters have adverse impacts on different aspects of human life. psychosocial rehabilitation is one of the fields which is usually overshadowed and ignored by physical rehabilitation or its importance does not receive proper attention. this research attempts to study some lessons learned from psychosocial rehabilitation based on disaster experiences in iran. materials and methods:...

BACKGROUND Human resources for rehabilitation are often a neglected component of health services strengthening and health workforce development. This may be partly related to weaknesses in the available research and evidence to inform advocacy and programmatic strategies. The objective of this study was to quantitatively describe the global situation in terms of supply of and need for human res...

Virtual reality (VR) is now applying to biomedical engineering, and penetrating rehabilitation engineering. However, there is a problem called cybersickness which would prevent the applications of VR. We have investigated the influences of vection-inducing images on the autonomic regulation by analyzing biosignals, and using the image motion vectors to quantify video image scenes. The results s...

L. Frossard, D. Lee Gow, B. Contoyannis, D. Ewins, J. Sullivan, R. Tranberg, E. Haggstrom, and R. Brånemark School of Mechanical, Manufacturing & Medical Engineering, QUT, Brisbane, Australia Caulfield General Medical Centre, Melbourne, Australia RehabTech, Monash Rehabilitation Technology Research Unit, Melbourne, Australia Centre for Biomedical Engineering, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK...

Aleksandra Vuckovic*, Jaime A. Pineda, Kristen LaMarca, Disha Gupta and Christoph Guger 1 School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK 2 Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA 3 Clinical Psychology, California School of Professional Psychology, San Diego, CA, USA 4 Burke Rehabilitation Center, Burke-Cornell Medical Research Institute...

Stephen Foldes1,2, Wei Wang1,2,3, Jennifer Collinger1,4, Xin Li5, Jinyin Zhang2,5, Gustavo Sudre2, Anto Bagić2,6 and Douglas J. Weber1,2,3 1Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Pittsburgh 2Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Carnegie Mellon University 3Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh 4Human Engineering Research Laboratories, VA Pittsburg...

Soft robotics enriches the robotic functionalities by engineering soft materials and electronics toward enhanced compliance, adaptivity, friendly human machine. This decade has witnessed extraordinary progresses benefits in scaling down to small scale for a wide range of potential promising applications, including medical surgical robots, wearable rehabilitation unconstructed environments explo...