This book will provide an overview of the rehabilitation engineering field, including key concepts that are required to provide a solid foundation about the discipline. It willl present these concepts through a mix of basic and applied knowledge from rehabilitation engineering research and practice.
This book will provide an overview of the rehabilitation engineering field, including key concepts that are required to provide a solid foundation about the discipline. It will present these concepts through a mix of basic and applied knowledge from rehabilitation engineering research and practice. It's written as an introductory text in order to provide access to the field by those without previous experience or background in the field.These concepts will include those related to engineering and health that are necessary to understand the application of rehabilitation engineering to support human function.
Part 1: Introduction and Overview.
1. History of Rehabilitation
Engineering.
2. Assistive Technology.
3. Key Human Anatomy and Physiology
Principles as They Relate to Rehabilitation Engineering.
4. Psychosocial and
Cultural Aspects of Rehabilitation Engineering Interventions.
5. Overview of
Disease, Disability, and Impairment.
6. Rehabilitation Engineering across the
Lifespan. Part 2: Key Topics in Rehabilitation Engineering.
7. Policy and
Regulations in Rehabilitation Engineering.
8. Ethical Issues in
Rehabilitation Engineering.
9. Rehabilitation Engineering in the Assistive
Technology Industry.
10. Understanding the End-User.
11. Rehabilitation
Engineering in Less Resourced Settings. Part 3: Rehabilitation Engineering
and Areas of Application.
12. Rehabilitation Engineering Seating & Mobility
Chapter.
13. Universal Design and the Built Environment.
14. Wireless
Technologies.
15. Transporation Access.
16. Rehabilitation Robotics.
17.
Universal Interfaces and Information Technology.
18. AAC in the 21st Century:
The Outcome of Technology: Advancements and Amended Societal Attitudes.
19.
Cognitive Technologies.
20. Technology for Sensory Impairments (Vision and
Hearing).
21. Prosthetic & Orthotic Devices.
22. Neural Engineering. Part 4:
Outcomes and Assessemnts.
23. Assessment Approaches in Rehabilitation
Engineering.
24. Product Usability Testing and Outcomes: What Works? For
Whom? and Why?
Alex Mihailidis, Ph.D., P. Eng, is the Barbara G. Stymiest Research Chair in Rehabilitation Technology at the University of Toronto and Toronto Rehabilitation Institute.
Roger Smith, MD, Ph.D., O.T., FAOTA, RESNA Fellow is Director of the Rehabilitation Research Design and Disability Center at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
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