Books in the Rehabilitation Science in Practice Series series

This book focuses on the role and use of Virtual Reality for healthcare professions in both health and rehabilitation settings. It also offers future trends of other emerging technology within medicine and allied health professions.

This book provides a wide spectrum of readers with comprehensive but easily understandable protocols for the assessment and training of wheelchair skills. The Wheelchair Research Team at Dalhousie University and the Capital District Health Authority in Halifax (lead by the author) have focused on wheelchair safety and performance for three decad

This book focuses on the role and use of Virtual Reality for healthcare professions in both health and rehabilitation settings. It also offers future trends of other emerging technology within medicine and allied health professions.

This book contains a comprehensive overview of all current uses of robots in rehabilitation. The underlying principles in each application are provided. This is followed by a critical review of the technology available, of the utilization protocols, and of user studies, outcomes, and clinical evidence, if existing. Ethical and social implic

This book uses an internationally recognized conceptual framework that addresses medical, functional, and social model perspectives to cover all major areas of geriatric rehabilitation. It provides a broad-based perspective on older adults, discusses how age influences everyday life, and examines strategies that can be employed by rehabilitation

Written by international experts, this book provides an up-to-date synopsis of advances in research in pediatric rehabilitation engineering. Offering a single comprehensive resource on the latest findings, each chapter details a particular area of technology or those developments of particular clinical relevance to pediatric rehabilitation. Each chapter also includes a conceptual description of the technology or underlying scientific principles, followed by a synthesis of relevant literature, recent research advances, selected clinical case studies (where applicable), and perspectives for future directions.

This book provides to manufacturers, designers and evaluation professionals the necessary tools for balancing design and the assessment phases during the product lifecycle. It proposes an integrated model of interaction evaluation for a holistic analysis of the user experience by both discussing in details the interaction testing methods, and promoting the involvement of disabled users in human computer interaction evaluation.

A collaboration between leading scientists, practitioners, and researchers at Carnegie-Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh, this book is a comprehensive resource describing Quality of Life technologies and their development, evaluation, adoption, and commercialization. It takes an interdisciplinary team approach to the process of technology development for disabled and older persons and discusses the state of the art and future directions of technologies. This work provides direction on how to identify user needs and preferences, engage end-users in the design and development process, and evaluate and commercialize the technologies.

This book will provide an overview of the rehabilitation engineering field, including key concepts that are required to provide a solid foundation about the discipline. It willl present these concepts through a mix of basic and applied knowledge from rehabilitation engineering research and practice.

Written to provide clinicians, educators, researchers, and students in rehabilitation with a comprehensive overview of the theory, practice, and evidence base of goal setting, this first-of-its-kind reference provides an authoritative, state-of-the-art knowledge of the practice. The authors cover a broad range of different approaches to goal setting, with input from experts from North America, Europe, and Australia. This book is applicable to patients with stroke, traumatic brain injury, neurological disorders, spinal cord injury, and other conditions.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the current state of the art in assistive technology for persons with visual impairment, as well as coverage into promising new research directions. Beginning with a brief overview of the pathology and psychophysical aspects of low vision and blindness, the text proceeds with in-depth descriptions of current technology to support independent mobility and orientation, information access (printed information, tactile information, and computers), and life activities (education, work, entertainment), as well as future directions related to the technology for blindness and visual impairment.

This will be a substantial revision to a well regarded reference work in assitive technology for the disabled. Each chapter will be upgraded with the latest research developments.

This comprehensive resource guides health and rehabilitation practitioners as they engage in the rehabilitation process with people with multiple sclerosis (MS). The first section offers an overview of MS basics, and the next two describe MS rehabilitation to manage impairments and enhance activity and participation. The final section discusses contextual factors that may influence MS rehabilitation efforts. The text provides a broad-based perspective on the disease, describes how it influences everyday life, and suggests strategies that can be employed by rehabilitation practitioners to enable people with MS to fully engage in everyday life.

The study of neuroprosthetics deals with the theory and design of direct neural interfaces for delivering therapy and restoring functionality to disabled individuals.

This book reexamines the philosophical foundations of physical rehabilitation, expanding the understanding of movement beyond the physical body. Drawing from disability studies, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, cultural studies, and bioethics, this theoretically rigorous yet accessibly styled text explores the limitations of biomedicine as the organizing framework of rehabilitation, evaluates new directions to diversify rehabilitation practice, and establishes the parameters for a reconfigured ethics of rehabilitation. By embracing multiple ideas of movement¿not only physical, but also social, emotional, and political¿new approaches to rehabilitation are revealed.

Written to provide clinicians, educators, researchers, and students in rehabilitation with a comprehensive overview of the theory, practice, and evidence base of goal setting, this first-of-its-kind reference provides an authoritative, state-of-the-art knowledge of the practice. The authors cover a broad range of different approaches to goal setting, with input from experts from North America, Europe, and Australia. This book is applicable to patients with stroke, traumatic brain injury, neurological disorders, spinal cord injury, and other conditions.

This book provides the necessary tools for the evaluation of the interaction between the user who is disabled and the computer system that was designed to assist that person. The book creates an evaluation process that is able to assess the user's satisfaction with a developed system. Presenting a new theoretical perspective in the human computer interaction evaluation of disabled persons, it takes into account all of the individuals involved in the evaluation process.

Exploring the details of mobility and manipulative technologies, this volume provides insight into current research trends and discusses technologies that are under development. Each chapter covers one specific technology, starting with a general introduction, followed by technical details and an assessment from the user viewpoint¿including the user benefits, user suitability, cost, reliability, and required infrastructure. Each chapter also provides illustrations or photographs of the devices, making it accessible to lay and clinical audiences. The book also identifies shortcomings, current research related to the technology, and possible development opportunities.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the current state of the art in assistive technology for persons with visual impairment, as well as coverage into promising new research directions. Beginning with a brief overview of the pathology and psychophysical aspects of low vision and blindness, the text proceeds with in-depth descriptions of current technology to support independent mobility and orientation, information access (printed information, tactile information, and computers), and life activities (education, work, entertainment), as well as future directions related to the technology for blindness and visual impairment.

This book informs readers about how leading researchers are rethinking rehabilitation research and practice. It emphasizes discussion on the place of theory in advancing rehabilitation knowledge, unearthing important questions for policy and practice, underpinning research design, and prompting readers to question clinical assumptions. Each author proposes ways of thinking that are informed by theory, philosophy, and/or history as well as empirical research. Rigorous and provocative, it presents chapters that model ways readers might advance their own thinking, learning, practice, and research.

Presents a synopsis of advances in pediatric rehabilitation engineering research. This title contains chapters that include a conceptual description of the technology or underlying scientific principles, followed by a synthesis of relevant literature, selected clinical case studies (where applicable), and perspectives for future directions.