This paper describes a hands-off socially assistive therapist robot that monitors, assists, encourages, and socially interacts with post-stroke users engaged in rehabilitation exercises. We investigate the role of the robot's personality in the hands-off therapy process, focusing on the relationship between the level of extroversionintroversion of the robot and the user. We also demonstrate a b...

BACKGROUND While it is common for an economic evaluation of health care to rely on trial participants for self-reported health service utilisation, there is variability in the accuracy of this data due to potential recall bias. The aim of this study was to quantify the level of recall bias in self-reported primary health care general practitioner (GP) visits following inpatient rehabilitation o...

background : experts and staff of rehabilitation centers often do their activities without following the appropriate ergonomic principles and the correct methods of manual load handling. therefore, gradually and with the repetition of these activities they place themselves at risk of musculoskeletal disorders. the aim of this research is the assessment of lifting capacity by the niosh equation ...

This article focuses on matching stroke rehabilitation services, and patient needs through the interconnection between demand service capabilities. A solution is proposed based KJ, fuzzy AHP, QFD methods to address this problem. Specifically, KJ method categorizes user needs, AHP calculates weights rankings. Furthermore, capability indicators are developed, applied match customer with indicator...

OBJECTIVE This paper describes the development of the Protocol for Identification of Problems for Rehabilitation (PLPR), a tool to standardize collection of functional information based on the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF). DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROTOCOL The PLPR was developed for use during the initial contact with adult patients within a public networ...