Theory - Bioengineering of motor rehabilitation

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Esame Bioengineering of motor rehabilitation

Facoltà Ingegneria

Dal corso del Prof. Fioretti Sandro

Università Università Politecnica delle Marche - Ancona

A.A. 2022-2023

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Introduction

Bioengineering: is the biological and medical application of engineering principles or engineering equipment - also called Biomedical Engineering (Webster dictionary).

We focus on: (Human) Motor Function, that is the analysis of human motor functions is the main objective of bioengineering methods and techniques.

Rehabilitation: branch of medicine that aims to enhance and restore functional ability and quality of life to those with physical impairments or disabilities or handicap.

What is the Rehabilitation Engineering? It is the application of science and technology to improve the quality of life for people with disabilities (J. Reswick).

What is Bioengineering of Motor Rehabilitation? It is the application of bioengineering methods and techniques for the functional evaluation of motor functions in people with disabilities.

Schematic diagram of the rehabilitation process

Functional Recovery
Functional Rehabilitation
Functional Surgery

Functional Evaluation: physician and clinicians can decide to perform these therapy methods.

After motor rehabilitation.

Functional Evaluation
Aids
Training: caregivers, family
Social restitution + in the most natural way

Definitions

Functional Evaluation: methods and tools for the objective assessment of disability and functional status of the subject.

Functional Recovery: systems for the restoration of the impaired motor functions (e.g. FES: Functional Electrical Stimulation).

Functional Replacement: systems for the replacement of the affected organ (e.g. prostheses).

25/01 introduction

Bioengineering: is the biological and medical application of engineering principles or engineering equipment - also called Biomedical Engineering (Webster dictionary).

-> we focus on: (Human) Motor Function, that is the analysis of human motor functions is the main objective of bioengineering methods and techniques.

-> Rehabilitation: branch of medicine, that aims to enhance and restore functional ability and quality of life to those with physical impairments or disabilities or humans.

What is the rehabilitation engineering? It is the application of science and technology to improve the quality of life for people with disabilities (J. Reswick).

What is Bioengineering of Motor Rehabilitation? It is the application of bioengineering methods and techniques for the functional evaluation of motor functions in people with disabilities.

Schematic diagram of the rehabilitation process

Functional Evaluation.

Functional Recovery
Functional Replacement
Functional Surgery

After Motor Rehabilitation.

Functional Evaluation
Aids
Training (caregivers, family)
Social reintegration -> in the most natural way

Definitions

Functional Evaluation: methods and tools for the objective assessment of disability and functional status of the subject.

Functional Recovery: systems for the restoration of the impaired motor functions (e.g. FES: functional electrical stimulation).

Functional Replacement: systems for the replacement of the affected organ (e.g. prostheses).

Aids: chronologically advanced system is assistant aids to the disabled person.

Training: methodologies and tools for the training of disabled and assistive personnel in the use of the new technologies.

Examples

Ex. of Functional Recovery: FES = Functional Electrical Stimulation.

Restore the function when there is an injury in the spinal cord.

From single sub-tree point I can evaluate the physical activity of the patient.

Ex. of Functional Replacement: Above knee prosthesis.

Bionic - hand.

Ex. of Technological Aids: Robotic system (Burgard wheel chair, service robot).

Functional evaluation and applications

Functional Evaluation addresses the issue related to the assessment of motor function in the presence of disability and its goal is the development of tools and methodologies for the analysis of human disability based on quantitative criteria that are objective and representative.

The research conducted in this area has an immediate use in the rehabilitation in terms of rehabilitation planning (Ex. Bobis Protocol: it focused on children and used to decide if it is necessary an intervention therapy to act on the muscle, to try to restore the function; to verify the efficacy of treatments and also all the possibility of comparison between different situations).

Applications in other sectors: legal medicine, prevention, ergonomics, sport.

Each year hundreds of thousand people suffer a lesion of central nervous system (CNS) following, for example, stroke, cranial and medullary traum.

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