Human-Centered Robotics Applications in Rehabilitation of Individuals with Neurological Conditions
A special issue of Brain Sciences (ISSN 2076-3425). This special issue belongs to the section "Neural Engineering, Neuroergonomics and Neurorobotics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2025 | Viewed by 114
Special Issue Editor
Interests: functional recovery; robot-assisted training; robotic training; neurorehabilitation; virtual reality; motor-cognitive recovery; stroke rehabilitation; serious game therapy
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Rehabilitation was recently considered by the World Health Organization the medical strategy of the millennium. In fact, the global requirement of patient rehabilitation has grown exponentially due to the advancement of the average age of the population and thanks to the improvement of acute care.
Robotics has proven to be able to provide valid support for both assessment and rehabilitation in neurological disabilities. It is necessary to generate a homogeneous cultural growth on the part of clinicians and bioengineers, with the aim to develop personalized clinical protocols and to reduce the time of clinical translationality. It is necessary, in the future, to integrate the cognitive and sensory aspects in the robotic treatment of sensorimotor deficits in patients with neurological diseases. Many aspects remain to be improved, such as a correct cost-effective evaluation and ethical and social aspects for a correct integration of robots in rehabilitation care processes. Finally, most of the evidence is related to stroke and gait in spinal cord injuries, while they are lacking in other pathological populations.
The present Special Issue aims to address the unmet need for a real and efficient robotic implementation for patient sensorimotor rehabilitation, looking at the present status and future requirements.
Dr. Giovanni Morone
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- robotics
- neurological disabilities
- stroke
- gait
- rehabilitation
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