Rehabilitation: The
restoration of skills by a person who has had an illness or injury
so they regain maximum self-sufficiency and can function in a normal
or as near normal manner as possible. (The
word comes from the Latin "rehabilitare" meaning to make
fit again.)
Collections of Pages for Module 1:
Rehab Science Foundations:
healing biodynamics at the cell-tissue-organ-person levels
Rehabilitation/disability terminology:
anatomicial, medical rehab, rehab research, rehab classification models, human
performance, movment science
Assistive technology
and the HAAT model: definitions, societal factors, principles for
rehabilitation engineering, human activity / assitive technology model
Rehabilitative
continuum of care as a optimization problem: overview of engineering
optimization problem, optimization in the context of allied health practice,
relation of models of the rehab continuum of care to optimization
Telehealth in context
of optimizing care delivery: history, rehab needs assessment, models,
technologies, role of conferencing standards, potential for enhancing
rehab science
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Principles & Terminology
of Clinicial Rehabilitation Science & Engineering