Post-stroke or post-brain injuries rehabilitation is a long-term process defined by therapists
and tuned to the specific damages and their consequences for each patient. This process …

Task-oriented training is emerging as the dominant and most effective approach to motor
rehabilitation of upper extremity function after stroke. Here, the authors propose that the task …

This chapter outlines a Human-Computer Interaction inspired approach to rehabilitation of
neurological damage (eg spinal cord injury) that employs novel, computer guided …

Rehabilitation engineering refers to the development and application of techniques, devices,
and protocols for restoring function following disability. Although in most cases the concept …

Technological progress in the area of health informatics provides new prospects for the
neurorehablitation of neurological patients. The CogWatch project (www. cogwatch. eu) is …

The goal of this book is to bring together ideas from several different disciplines in order to
examine the focus and aims that drive rehabilitation intervention and technology …

Physical rehabilitation therapies can be enhanced by using interactive technologies.
Through several projects our team has developed an understanding of the practices and …

Neuro-rehabilitation is currently undergoing a technological revolution! Groups of engineers
and rehabilitation specialists are working on designing and testing a great variety of …

There is an ongoing debate over the value of robotic movement training devices for clinical
rehabilitation practice and their promise for the future. In this Epilogue, we break down the …

Purpose: This work aims at providing a tool for supporting cognitive rehabilitation. This is a
wide field, that includes a variety of diseases and related clinical pictures; for this reason the …