Telerehabilitation Robotics: Bright Lights, Big Future?

Main Category: Stroke
Also Included In: IT / Internet / E-mail;  Seniors / Aging;  Caregivers / Homecare
Article Date: 21 Nov 2006 - 0:00 PDT

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Using robotics for remote treatment over the Internet is now a reality. As care moves fromthe inpatient setting to the home, mining potential technologies such as telerehabilitation becomes critical to extend effective treatment outside the acute care hospital.

We focused on the integration of two technologies, telemedicine and rehabilitation robotics, to the upper limbs poststroke, the primary area of application thus far.

Many in the health industry rank these two tools high among the technology well-suited to answering the needs of a growing aging population, because robotic-assisted telerehabilitation offers innovative, interactive, and precisely reproducible therapies that can be performed for an extended duration with consistent implementation from site to site.

However, the technical challenges still include developing complex multidimensional robots capable of simulating more task-oriented home therapy.

Telerehabilitation robotics: Bright lights, big future? pg.695 (PDF)

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