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Monitoring Patients during Neurorehabilitation Following Central or Peripheral Nervous System Injury: Dynamic Difficulty Adaptation
Published in Herbert F. Jelinek, David J. Cornforth, Ahsan H. Khandoker, ECG Time Series Variability Analysis, 2017
Herbert F. Jelinek, David J. Cornforth, Alexander Koenig, Robert Riener, Chandan Karmakar, Hasan Imam, Ahsan H. Khandoker, Marimuthu Palaniswami, Mario Minichiello
The goal of rehabilitation is to reduce motor-related impairments, increase participation in activities of daily living, and improve quality of life. Spontaneous recovery of motor skills from stroke plateaus at about 3 months depending on location and level of impairment (Stinear and Byblow 2014). Rehabilitation-based improvements beyond spontaneous recovery have been demonstrated in poststroke patients inspiring research and application of long-term therapies. Ideal training conditions and level of rehabilitation have yet to be established for various rehabilitation programs especially in the diverse area of stroke rehabilitation and robot-assisted device implementation. A particularly difficult part of rehabilitation assessment is obtaining an indicator of active mental engagement, which is important for successful outcomes.
Rapid rehabilitation of deteriorated beam ends with ultra-high performance concrete
Published in Hiroshi Yokota, Dan M. Frangopol, Bridge Maintenance, Safety, Management, Life-Cycle Sustainability and Innovations, 2021
Construction projects such as girder end repairs and replacements cause highway congestion increasing fuel consumption and environmental impacts and costing users time and money. Most rehabilitation projects take place over the course of several months or even years. In a recent Urban Mobility Report of the US, the average time that auto users spend in traffic is approximately 54 hours annually; a large portion of this traffic due to construction delays. Traffic costs each user an estimated US$1,000 in additional fuel consumption and wasted time (Schrank et al., 2019).
Prosthetic and orthotic devices
Published in Alex Mihailidis, Roger Smith, Rehabilitation Engineering, 2023
Joel Kempfer, Renee Lewis, Goeran Fiedler, Barbara Silver-Thorn
The rehabilitation team may also include peer support counselors and fellow amputees who have received training to educate new amputees in post-surgical care and rehabilitation expectations. Of course, nursing staff (and therapists) play an integral role throughout the process, during both inpatient and outpatient care. A rehabilitation engineer may help provide access to assistive technology to support seating and positioning, mobility, and independent performance of activities of daily living as well as vocational activities.
Rehabilitation engineers, technologists, and technicians: Vital members of the assistive technology team
Published in Assistive Technology, 2023
Carmen P. DiGiovine, Meghan Donahue, Patricia Bahr, Mark Bresler, Joseph Klaesner, Raj Pagadala, Brian Burkhardt, Ray Grott
Rehabilitation Engineering is the application of science and technology to improve the quality of life and increase independence for individuals with disabilities. The rehabilitation engineering profession includes rehabilitation engineers, rehabilitation technologists/assistive technologists, and rehabilitation technicians. This paper assumes that rehabilitation technologist is synonymous with assistive technologist. Rehabilitation engineering professionals primarily work in the fields of assistive technology (i.e. focus on performance of functional activities), rehabilitation technology (i.e. focus on remediation of limitations), and universal design (i.e. focus on access for all people independent of ability) (Cook & Polgar, 2008; Story, Mueller, & Mace, 1998). As the fields of assistive technology and rehabilitation technology have advanced, so has the field of rehabilitation engineering in providing more educational, social, and vocational opportunities for individuals with disabilities.
Early functional treatment or trivialization? – current treatment strategies in lateral ligament injuries of the ankle
Published in European Journal of Sport Science, 2021
Daniel Popp, Johannes Weber, Maximilian Kerschbaum, Andreas Schicho, Florian Baumann, Franz Hilber, Werner Krutsch, Volker Alt, Christian Pfeifer
Nowadays, primary acute ligament ruptures of the ankle joint without involvement of the syndesmosis are treated non-operatively. Rehabilitation strategies include – similarly to rehabilitation after operative treatment – physical therapy as well as physiotherapy and training therapy (Thomas, Whalley, & Modi, 2009). Recurrent injuries and chronic ankle instability require surgical treatment. Surgical procedures as initially described by Brostrom et al. (Brostrom, 1966), are nowadays performed in modified techniques (Bajuri, Daun, Abdul Raof, Hassan, & Das, 2019; Rigby & Cottom, 2019) and show good to excellent results. However, if tissue quality is inferior and reconstruction using local tissue is not achievable, tendon transfer procedures are recommended (Hintermann & Renggli, 1999; Richter, Volz, Immendorfer, & Schulz, 2012; Sugimoto, Takakura, Kumai, Iwai, & Tanaka, 2002). Different techniques of those surgical treatment options with successful results have been published previously (Coetzee, Ellington, Ronan, & Stone, 2018; Pereira et al., 2018).
A critical review of additive manufacturing technology in rehabilitation medicine via the use of visual knowledge graph
Published in Virtual and Physical Prototyping, 2023
Weihua Lu, Wenxin He, Jiaming Wu, Yicha Zhang
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines rehabilitation as the application of all measures to alleviate the conditions of disability and handicap, improve the functioning of the sick, injured and disabled, and make it possible for them to become socially integrated without discrimination, and to reintegrate the disabled into society. Rehabilitation was not only the training of the disabled to adapt to their surroundings but also was the adjustment of their surroundings and social conditions to restore, compensate or re-establish their functions to the greatest extent possible so as to achieve the best functional status, improve the quality of life and enable the sick, injured or disabled to reintegrate into society (Andelic et al. 2020). ‘Rehabilitation medicine’ in a narrow sense refers to the use of medical treatment to promote rehabilitation. ‘Rehabilitation medicine’ is a ‘field’ that involves various clinical disciplines and includes all patients in need of treatment. From a medical point of view, patients were diagnosed, evaluated and treated by various medical means to promote the recovery of their bodily functions (Mauritz 1996). Rehabilitation medicine (RM) was a first-level discipline alongside clinical subjects such as the internal medicine department, chirurgery, gynaecology and paediatrics (Giacino et al. 2018). The main tasks of RM research included the prevention, assessment, treatment, training, and therapy of disabilities and handicaps, to eliminate and alleviate the functional impairment of patients, compensate and reconstruct their functional defects, and strive to improve their self-care ability and quality of life (Correia et al. 2014).