Frontiers Research in Biomechanics and Rehabilitation Engineering

Dear Colleagues,

Biomechanics and rehabilitation engineering are two interwined fields aimed at improving the quality of life of disabled people and the elderly. The design of novel rehabilitation devices can benefit from the use of recent but also widespread manufacturing techniques, such as 3D printing, the use of biologically inspired actuators such as Bowden cables, pneumatic muscles or textiles, and the use of ‘ad hoc’ simulation models to characterize the rehabilitation systems and their influence in the rehabilitation process.

This Special Issue covers recent advances in rehabilitation engineering, focused on the design and characterization of biomechanically inspired rehabilitation devices such as prostheses, orthoses, exoskeletons or implants, among others. Theoretical and experimental results are invited to this Special Issue. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Novel designs of rehabilitation devices for the upper and lower limbs;
• Biologically inspired actuators and control schemes;
• Use of rapid manufacturing techniques in the design of rehabilitation devices
• Assessment of the aforementioned systems for the population of interest;
• Model simulation and validation;
• Characterization of the rehabilitation system constructive materials.

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Materials is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• rehabilitation devices
• design of assistive devices
• wearable rehabilitation systems
• human augmentation
• assessment of the rehabilitation process