Bioengineering for Physical Rehabilitation

Dear Colleagues,

Bioengineering applications in physical rehabilitation present unique opportunities for assisting patients recovering from stroke, surgery, or musculoskeletal trauma. Worldwide, millions of patients are enrolled in various physical rehabilitation programs, and the related costs impose enormous burdens on patients and healthcare systems. Subsequently, the urgent requirement for new tools to support physical rehabilitation has been recognized in numerous reports and publications. The development of innovative and cross-disciplinary bioengineering approaches, devices, and solutions can address the lack of such tools, as well as reduce the time taken to reach functional recovery and healthcare costs. For example, the recent progress in machine learning offers great potential for mining rehabilitation data, assessing performance, detecting compensatory movements, and tracking patient progress. Similarly, the advancements in sensors and wearable devices, vision cameras, non-intrusive motion tracking technology, and serious games can be applied to improve patient outcomes in home-based rehabilitation. Furthermore, intelligent robots and smart mechatronic devices empowered with AI approaches can complement clinical support and reduce the duration of rehabilitation programs.  

This Special Issue on “Bioengineering for Physical Rehabilitation” will present original research and comprehensive review papers that introduce novel theoretical bioengineering approaches and/or applications of technologies in physical rehabilitation.  

The topics of interest for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Computational approaches in rehabilitation;
• Rehabilitation robotics;
• Assistive devices for rehabilitation;
• Machine learning and AI-based methods;
• Automated screening/assessment;
• Sensors for rehabilitation;
• Biomechanics;
• Serious games for rehabilitation;
• Physical prosthetics;
• Brain–computer interfaces;
• Virtual and augmented reality in rehabilitation.

Dr. Aleksandar Vakanski
Guest Editor

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