Advanced Rehabilitation in Complex Patients: Innovative Solutions to Enduring Challenges
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Biomedical Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 April 2026
Special Issue Editor
Interests: rehabilitation; ultrasound; electromyography; quantitative evaluation
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Dear Colleagues,
Rehabilitation of complex patients represents one of the most enduring and transversal challenges in modern medicine. Neurological, orthopedic, oncological, rheumatological, and cardiopulmonary conditions are frequently associated with multimorbidity, frailty, and disability, requiring highly personalized and multidisciplinary rehabilitation programs.
The use of quantitative measurement methods certainly allows for precise information to understand the most appropriate treatment approaches; however, the data is often fragmented and difficult to integrate into truly functional clinical reasoning. In this regard, big data analysis and the application of artificial intelligence tools have opened up new perspectives. These allow for the processing of large volumes of clinical, functional, and instrumental data, facilitating the development of predictive outcome models, patient stratification, and the definition of individualized therapeutic strategies. Furthermore, they potentially allow for the identification of response patterns to rehabilitation and the construction of robust data to support evidence-based practices.
This Special Issue will feature original studies, clinical trials, and reviews that delve deeper into the rehabilitation challenges of complex patients and explore how emerging technologies can improve the quality of care. The goal is to stimulate multidisciplinary discussion and promote innovative and sustainable solutions that can transform clinical complexity into opportunities for advancement in rehabilitation medicine.
The main topics include the following:
- New approaches in rehabilitation medicine;
- Robotic and rehabilitation;
- Virtual reality in patients’ treatment;
- Quantitative analysis of neuromuscular function;
- Telemedicine and telerehabilitation of complex patients;
- Computational models in rehabilitation medicine;
- Big data analysis in medicine;
- Artificial intelligence in clinical practice.
Dr. Daniele Coraci
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- rehabilitation
- neurology
- orthopaedics
- oncology
- rheumathology
- cardiopulmonary conditions
- quantitative measurements
- artificial intelligence
- complex patient
- big data
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