Tomislav Bacek - Böcker

Technology-Assisted Physical Gait Rehabilitation: How Robotics, Data Science, and Neuroscience are Changing Modern Physical Therapy explores computational modeling techniques, robotic assistance, data science, and other technological tools and how they can be jointly used in driving and guiding physical gait therapy in impairments such as stroke, traumatic brain injury, and incomplete spinal cord injury. This book gathers experts in robotics, human biomechanics, physical therapy, neuroscience, engineering, and medicine, presenting their ongoing work and discusses their views of the future direction of technology-assisted gait therapy, showcasing the latest advancements in the interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary field of technology-assisted gait therapy and strives to outline the developments in the coming years that are needed/likely to make the next big breakthrough in the field.Summarizes the latest knowledge on rehab robotics and proposes how new technologies could be deployedFocuses on computational modelling of the neuro-motor system, particularly recent developments leveraging data driven and optimization methodsSynthesizes the different aspects of technology-assisted physical gait rehabilitation into an integrated context