Abstract
New Technologies for Stroke Rehabilitation
Highlights
From other elds of engineering, studies about the effectiveness of these technologies o en occur a er their development and their insertion in the rehabilitation settings
Over the last decade, many devices for robotic-assisted training have been developed to allow patients to perform early, intensive, and task-oriented exercises [2, 3], and wearable devices for an objective assessment of human movements have been developed for substituting in clinical settings the expensive and difficulty to use stereophotogrammetric systems of research gait laboratories [4]
A number of studies showed the efficacy of these new technological approaches, whereas some others did not show any improvement in respect of conventional therapies. is uncertainty about efficacy, together with high purchase cost for some of these devices, some difficulties in their use by untrained staff, the absence of clear guidelines about better dosage and parameter values to select, and a somewhat diffuse scepticism by some members of the rehabilitation teams may limit the transfer of these new technologies from research laboratories to clinical settings, where patients are waiting to bene t from them
Summary
From other elds of engineering, studies about the effectiveness of these technologies o en occur a er their development and their insertion in the rehabilitation settings. An increasing number of researches are pursuing the use of new technologies to improve the efficacy of rehabilitation. Over the last decade, many devices for robotic-assisted training have been developed to allow patients to perform early, intensive, and task-oriented exercises [2, 3], and wearable devices for an objective assessment of human movements have been developed for substituting in clinical settings the expensive and difficulty to use stereophotogrammetric systems of research gait laboratories [4].
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