Rehabilitation Robotics: Latest Advances and Prospects
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Robotics and Automation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 June 2024 | Viewed by 567
Special Issue Editors
Interests: gait; spasticity; stroke; robotics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The area of robotics is being developed and used in many fields all over the world.
In rehabilitation medicine, the development of robotic technologies is already underway, and some of their clinical effects have been reported.
It is expected that using such technologies will result in better rehabilitation compared to traditional approaches.
Therefore, high-quality research showing the benefits of using such technologies is necessary; however, it is not easy to conduct clinical research to explore their clinical effects on patients due to the following reasons:
- Using a new technology is usually not covered by insurance;
- Difficulty comparing between patients (varying types of patient backgrounds, diseases, etc.).
Despite the difficulties in producing high-quality research, it is essential that a multitude of clinical research reports shoud be created in order to establish the use of robotics in rehabilitation.
In this Special Issue, we would like to call for papers related to the wide field of rehabilitation robotics and VR technology for upper limb function, gait, and other performances.
Dr. Hiroki Tanikawa
Dr. Yuki Uchiyama
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- rehabilitation robotics
- virtual reality
- clinical trial
