AMD does not just affect the retina. It severely affects people’s lives. Paying attention to this aspect will only become more important as the population ages and more otherwise healthy individuals become affected. This paper will discuss the need f...
The aim of this paper is to study the profile of persons with low vision in Jordan based on the clinical records of service users who attended the Vision Rehabilitation Center (VRC) at the German Jordanian University (GJU). A retrospective study was...
Introduction: Low vision affects more than visual acuity; it substantially disrupts daily functioning and may contribute to long-term cognitive, emotional, and social consequences. When medical or surgical treatment options are no longer effective, s...
Advances in robotic technology for hand rehabilitation, particularly soft robotic gloves, have significant potential to improve patient outcomes. While vision-based algorithms pave the way for fast and convenient hand pose estimation, most current mo...
With the changes in human work and lifestyle, the incidence of cervical spondylosis is increasing substantially, especially for adolescents. Cervical spine exercises are an important means to prevent and rehabilitate cervical spine diseases, but no m...
Physical rehabilitation is crucial for injury recovery, offering pain relief and faster healing. However, traditional methods rely heavily on in-person professional feedback, which can be time-consuming, expensive, and prone to human error, limiting...
Monitoring the process of musculoskeletal rehabilitation is of great importance for ensuring a person’s health after suffering from illnesses, especially during the outpatient period when medical supervision is absent. The aim of this study is...
This study proposes an action identification system for home upper extremity rehabilitation. In the proposed system, we apply an RGB-depth (color-depth) sensor to capture the image sequences of the patient’s upper extremity actions to identify...
Augmented reality features, such as overlaying information in real time, modifying the projected scene, or dynamically adjusting parameters like contrast, zoom, and brightness, show promise in addressing the specific challenges faced by people with l...
Resilient artificial intelligence (Resilient AI) is relevant in many areas where technology needs to adapt quickly to changing and unexpected conditions, such as in the medical, environmental, security, and agrifood sectors. In the case study involvi...
Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a leading cause of vision loss in patients with diabetes. While medical treatments like retinal laser photocoagulation, anti-VEGF therapy, and vitrectomy are primary, complementary therapies are gaining increasing attenti...
In the context of stroke rehabilitation, simple structures and user-intent driven actuation are relevant features to facilitate neuroplasticity as well as deliver a sufficient number of repetitions during a single therapy session. A novel robotic tre...
Impaired hand function is one of the most frequently persistent consequences of stroke. Throughout the rehabilitation process, physicians consistently monitor patients and perform kinematic evaluations in order to assess their overall progress in mot...
4 December 2023
East and Southeast Asia (ESEA) are facing age-related eye health issues. Low-vision rehabilitation (LVR), which is a special rehabilitation service for individuals with vision impairment, is a promising solution for these health issues; however, poor...
(1) Background: Albinism is characterized by a lack of pigment in eyes, hair, and skin and developmental changes in the eye such as foveal hypoplasia. Patients require optical rehabilitation due to low vision, refractive errors, and photosensitivity....
Background/Objectives: Cerebral visual impairment (CVI) is the leading cause of visual disability in children, resulting from damage to the brain’s visual processing pathways. Although ocular structures may be intact, functional vision, the use...
Tele-rehabilitation has the potential to considerably change the way patients are monitored from their homes during the care process, by providing equitable access without the need to travel to rehab centers or shoulder the high cost of personal in-h...
Background: Despite evidence that low vision rehabilitation (LVR) services can improve visual function in patients with neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD), many patients are not directed to access these resources. This study was cond...
23 June 2025
Background: Nearly 5 million people in Peru live with visual impairments, many of which are irreversible. within addition to eye care services, these individuals could benefit from government services and rehabilitation to improve their quality of li...
Glaucoma is one of the most common causes of irreversible visual impairment world wide. Providing low vision rehabilitation (LVR) services is a primary mode of support for patients with permanent vision loss. This retrospective, cross-sectional study...
An important aspect of medical rehabilitation using exoskeletons is objective monitoring of the effectiveness of the exercise program. This control is most often manual and relies on the attention of a rehabilitation physician, but advanced rehabilit...
Conventional upper limb rehabilitation methods often encounter significant obstacles, including high costs, limited accessibility, and reduced patient adherence. Emerging technological solutions, such as telerehabilitation, virtual reality (VR), and...
Early rehabilitation with the right intensity contributes to the physical recovery of stroke survivors. In clinical practice, physicians determine whether the training intensity is suitable for rehabilitation based on patients’ narratives, trai...
The global aging population faces significant health challenges, including an increasing vulnerability to disability due to natural aging processes. Wearable lower limb exoskeletons (LLEs) have emerged as a promising solution to enhance physical func...
Functional electrical stimulation (FES) is a rehabilitation and assistive technique used for stroke survivors. FES systems mainly consist of sensors, a control algorithm, and a stimulation unit. However, there is a critical need to reassess sensing a...
This paper presents the design and evaluation of a novel soft pneumatic actuator featuring two independent bending chambers, enabling independent joint actuation and localization for rehabilitation purposes. The actuator’s dual-chamber configur...
Hand impairment affects millions of people. There are multiple factors that cause deficits, varying from physical injuries to neurological disorders. Upper-limb patients face significant difficulties in daily life. Rehabilitation aims at supporting t...
Background: This prospective pilot study included four participants with chronic visual impairment and assessed functional and electrophysiological recovery following visual evoked potential (VEP)-guided auditory biofeedback across diverse etiologies...
Sport Vision is a speciality of multidisciplinary interest aimed at improving the performance of the visual system to achieve benefits in practiced sports, as well as in daily life and in preventive care. The type of training practiced by the athlete...
Aging is a physiological state which implies several consequences [...]
Diagnostics of a hand requires measurements of kinematics and joint limits. The standard tools for this purpose are manual devices such as goniometers which allow measuring only one joint simultaneously, making the diagnostics time-consuming. The pap...
We explored the feasibility of using Bluetooth low energy (BLE) beacon sensors to determine when individuals with low vision (LV) use handheld magnifiers at home. Knowing the frequency and duration of magnifier use would be helpful to document increa...
The traditional scoliosis examination based on X-ray film is not suitable for large-scale screening, and it is also not suitable for dynamic evaluation during rehabilitation. Therefore, based on computer vision technology, this paper puts forward an...
Technological advancements have expanded the range of methods for capturing human body motion, including solutions involving inertial sensors (IMUs) and optical alternatives. However, the rising complexity and costs associated with commercial solutio...
The restoration of fine motor function in the hand is crucial for stroke survivors with hemiplegia to reintegrate into daily life and presents a significant challenge in post-stroke rehabilitation. Current mirror rehabilitation systems based on weara...
The incidence of stroke and the burden on health care and society are expected to increase significantly in the coming years, due to the increasing aging of the population. Various sensory, motor, cognitive and psychological disorders may remain in t...
Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) comprises a group of inherited retinal dystrophies characterized by the degeneration of rod photoreceptors, followed by the degeneration of cone photoreceptors. As a result of photoreceptor degeneration, affected individuals...
Individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI) manifest a wide range of visual dysfunctions. One of the most prevalent involves the oculomotor system, which includes version, vergence, and accommodation. However, until recently, there has been no comp...
Background/Objectives: Stroke survivors often experience various visual consequences that impact their daily life and may benefit from visual interventions. However, some of these usually go unaddressed as optometrists are rarely included in the post...
Visual retinal prostheses aim to restore vision for blind individuals who suffer from outer retinal degenerative diseases, such as retinitis pigmentosa and age-related macular degeneration. Perception through retinal prostheses is very limited, but i...
Several children struggle with vision difficulties caused by problematic coordination between their left and right eye muscles, i.e., oculomotor dysfunction (OMD). Many OMDs can be improved by training the eyes via physical exercises defined and supe...
Treating a patient with traumatic brain injury requires an interdisciplinary approach because of the pervasive, profound and protean manifestations of this condition. In this review, key aspects of the medical history and review of systems will be de...
The fundamental role of vision during development and the nurturing role of early intersubjectivity have enabled the Robert Hollman Foundation to develop an early intervention program providing holistic support to visually impaired children and their...
Compliant mechanisms are gaining popularity in many different fields, such as in microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), medical applications and health care, opto-mechatronic technology, aerospace engineering, and semiconductor equipment. One of the...
Teleception is defined as sensing that occurs remotely, with no physical contact with the object being sensed. To emulate innate control systems of the human body, a control system for a semi- or fully autonomous assistive device not only requires fe...
Sensors are becoming ubiquitous in all areas of science, technology, and society. In this Special Issue on “Sensors for Entertainment”, developments in progress and the current state of application scenarios for sensors in the field of entertainment...
(1) Background: This study aims to highlight differences in the etiology and fitting of low vision aids in visually impaired children and adolescents in comparison to adults. (2) Methods: A retrospective data collection from visually impaired patient...
Neurological diseases are increasingly diverse and prevalent, presenting significant challenges for their timely and accurate diagnosis. The aim of the present study is to conduct a bibliometric analysis and literature review in the field of neurolog...
Many medical conditions impair proprioception but there are few easy-to-deploy technologies for assessing proprioceptive deficits. Here, we developed a method—called “OpenPoint”—to quantify upper extremity (UE) proprioception...
Background: Modern rehabilitation approaches, encompassing physical, emotional, and social aspects, are gaining momentum in healthcare systems worldwide; however, their acceptance and effectiveness vary across different cultural contexts. Objective:...
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