Week of Events
“An Effective Model for Early-Stage Healthcare Innovation”.: GBS EMBS WEEK PRESENTATION
“An Effective Model for Early-Stage Healthcare Innovation”.: GBS EMBS WEEK PRESENTATION
This is the first of the three "GBS EMBS WEEK" presentations Many models exist for early-stage innovation and problem-solving. The healthcare system is highly complex, and traditional models often fail to produce real-world implemented solutions. This presentation will describe in brief a model developed in our center that combines best-practices from industry and academic programs to increase the likelihood of success in healthcare innovation. Speaker(s): Youseph, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/318909
“How Robotics are Revolutionizing Rehabilitation?”: GBS EMBS WEEK PRESENTATION
“How Robotics are Revolutionizing Rehabilitation?”: GBS EMBS WEEK PRESENTATION
This is one of the three presentations of GBS EMBS WEEK Capitalizing on the new understanding of brain plasticity, we introduced a paradigm shift in clinical practice in 1989 when we initiated the development of the MIT-Manus robot for neuro-rehabilitation and deployed it in the clinic. Since then we collected evidence to support the potential of enhancing and augmenting recovery following a stroke, first during the sub-acute and then the chronic phase. Our efforts and that of others led to endorsements starting in 2010 from the American Heart Association, the American Stroke Association, and the Veterans Administration for the use of rehabilitation robots for the Upper Extremity, but not yet for the Lower Extremity. AHA recommendations were the same in the 2016 revision. Furthermore, it was demonstrated in the VA system that upper extremity robotic therapy has an economic advantage over manual therapy. More recently we completed a pragmatic study RATULS under the auspices of the National Health Service of the United Kingdom and its NIHR Health Technology Assessment Programme, which enrolled 770 stroke patients. Thus, we have developed novel robotic treatment and evaluation tools and have managed to collect experimental evidence that demonstrates the unequivocal therapeutic benefits stemming from robot-aided rehabilitation for the upper extremity as well as present shortcomings. This talk will present an overview of our past rehabilitation robotics efforts and more recent efforts addressing the identified shortcomings. Speaker(s): Prof Krebs, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/318839
“Robotics and Optical Fiber Sensors for Biomedical Engineering Applications”: GBS EMBS WEEK PRESENTATION
“Robotics and Optical Fiber Sensors for Biomedical Engineering Applications”: GBS EMBS WEEK PRESENTATION
This is the second presentation of GBS EMBS WEEK. The lecture will start by addressing general concepts about Biomedical Engineering and Rehabilitation Robotics. Afterward, the latest developments of optical fiber sensors for healthcare applications, including health monitoring, wearable robotics, and other assistive devices' instrumentation will be presented. Finally, the presenter will address different developments and implementations of human-robot-environment interaction strategies for robotic devices to assist cognitive and motor disabilities. Speaker(s): Prof Frizera, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/318835