Rehabilitation Robots for Neurorehabilitation in High, Low, and Middle Income Countries: Current Practice, Barriers, and Future Directions describes the state-of-art research of stroke rehabilitation using robot systems in selected High Income Countries (HICs) and Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs), along with potential solutions that enable these technologies to be available to clinicians worldwide, regardless of country and economic status. The book brings together engineers and clinicians, offers insights into healthcare disparities, and highlights potential solutions to facilitate the availability and accessibility of more robot systems to stroke survivors and their clinicians worldwide, regardless of country and economic status.In addition, the book provides examples on how robotic technology is used to bridge rehabilitation gaps in LMICs and describes potential strategies for increasing the expansion of robot-assisted stroke rehabilitation across more LMICs.
- Provides a global picture of robot-assisted neurorehabilitation
- Describes stroke healthcare in selected LMICs and selected HICs, along with disparity issues
- Discusses potential barriers to the penetration of rehabilitation robots into LMICs
- Presents concrete examples on how clinicians and engineers have begun to address healthcare gaps with rehabilitation robotics and how to deal with accessibility barriers
Preface1. Stroke2. Rehabilitation guidelines for stroke care: a worldwide perspective
3. Fundamentals of neurorehabilitation4. Fundamentals of rehabilitation robotics5. Evidence for Rehabilitation and Socially Assistive Robotics for Neurorehabilitation6. America and Europe Region: USA7. America and Europe Region: Canada8. American and Europe Region: Italy9. America and Europe Region: Spain10. Asia Pacific Region and Middle East: Japan11. Asia Pacific Region and Middle East: Australia12. Asia Pacific Region and Middle East: Republic of Korea13. Asia Pacific Region and Middle East: Israel14. North Central America and the Caribbean Region: Mexico15. North Central America and the Caribbean Region: Costa Rica16. South America Region: Colombia17. South America Region: Ecuador18. America and Europe Region: Serbia19. Asia Pacific Region: India20. Asia Pacific Region: Malaysia21. Asia Pacific Region: China22. Middle East Region: Iran23. Middle East Region: Turkey24. Africa Region: Nigeria25. Africa Region: Botswana26. Africa Region: Ghana27. Africa Region: Cameroon28. Africa Region: Morocco29. Psychosocial aspects of human machine interaction30. Human Centered Design for Acceptability and Usability31. Best practices of rehabiliataton robots32. Toward global use of rehabilitation robotis and future considerationsAcknowledgements References
Her research is mainly in robot-mediated neurorehabilitation. She is focused on the investigation and rehabilitation of dysfunction due to aging, neural disease, and neural injury. She is particularly interested in 1) exploring the relationships between brain plasticity and behavioral/motor control changes after robot-assisted interventions; 2) quantifying motor impairment and motor control of the upper limb in real world tasks such as drinking; and 3) defining the methods to maintain therapeutic effectiveness while administering local and remote, robot-mediated interventions.
She directs the Rehabilitation Robotics Lab. This is a new Lab within the Department of Physical, Medicine, and Rehabilitation in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. The Rehabilitation Robotics Lab mission is to use robotics, rehabilitation, and neuroscience techniques to translate research findings into the development of assistive and therapeutic rehabilitation robots capable of functioning in real-world rehabilitation environments. The goal is to improve the quality of life and function on activities of daily living (ADLs) of our target population in supervised or under-supervised settings. Rochelle Mendonca, PhD, OTR/L, is an Assistant Professor in the Occupational Therapy Program in the Department of Rehabilitation and Regenerative Medicine at Columbia University, New York, United States. Her research primarily revolves around evaluation of outcomes of assistive technology, accessibility, and participation for individuals diagnosed with disabilities.
