Description
Rehabilitation Robots for Neurorehabilitation in High, Low, and Middle Income Countries: Current Practice, Barriers, and Future Directions describes the state-of-art research of stroke rehabilitation using robot systems in selected High Income Countries (HICs) and Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs), along with potential solutions that enable these technologies to be available to clinicians worldwide, regardless of country and economic status. The book brings together engineers and clinicians, offers insights into healthcare disparities, and highlights potential solutions to facilitate the availability and accessibility of more robot systems to stroke survivors and their clinicians worldwide, regardless of country and economic status.In addition, the book provides examples on how robotic technology is used to bridge rehabilitation gaps in LMICs and describes potential strategies for increasing the expansion of robot-assisted stroke rehabilitation across more LMICs.- Provides a global picture of robot-assisted neurorehabilitation- Describes stroke healthcare in selected LMICs and selected HICs, along with disparity issues- Discusses potential barriers to the penetration of rehabilitation robots into LMICs- Presents concrete examples on how clinicians and engineers have begun to address healthcare gaps with rehabilitation robotics and how to deal with accessibility barriers
Table of Contents
1. Stroke2. Rehabilitation guidelines for stroke care: a worldwide perspective3. Fundamentals of neurorehabilitation4. Fundamentals of rehabilitation robotics5. Evidence for Rehabilitation and Socially Assistive Robotics for Neurorehabilitation6. America and Europe Region: USA7. America and Europe Region: Canada8. American and Europe Region: Italy9. America and Europe Region: Spain10. Asia Pacific Region and Middle East: Japan11. Asia Pacific Region and Middle East: Australia12. Asia Pacific Region and Middle East: Republic of Korea13. Asia Pacific Region and Middle East: Israel14. North Central America and the Caribbean Region: Mexico15. North Central America and the Caribbean Region: Costa Rica16. South America Region: Colombia17. South America Region: Ecuador18. America and Europe Region: Serbia19. Asia Pacific Region: India20. Asia Pacific Region: Malaysia21. Asia Pacific Region: China22. Middle East Region: Iran23. Middle East Region: Turkey24. Africa Region: Nigeria25. Africa Region: Botswana26. Africa Region: Ghana27. Africa Region: Cameroon28. Africa Region: Morocco29. Psychosocial aspects of human machine interaction30. Human Centered Design for Acceptability and Usability31. Best practices of rehabiliataton robots32. Toward global use of rehabilitation robotis and future considerations
