INTRODUCING ROBOTIC-ASSISTED REHABILITATION INTO CLINICAL PRACTICE

Анотація

New technologies are gradually being introduced in all areas of health care to improve patient care. These efforts stem from demographic data showing an increasing number of elderly people, a rising trend in the incidence of diseases with a consequent disability, and society’s legitimate demands for the availability of state-of-the-art diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. The introduction of new technologies is also related to an increasing number of musculoskeletal and neuromuscular injuries, including sports medicine. The introduction of robotic and robot- assisted rehabilitation is currently a major challenge in rehabilitation medicine. These are new technologies that are currently of great interest, but the search is still ongoing for optimal indications and treatment protocols to evaluate the effect of treatment as well as possible combinations of interventions. There are also considerable gaps in the information of workers, definitions of treatment procedures, classification of devices, and classification of medical procedures.