Rehabilitation Engineering, Science, and Technology

Rehabilitation Engineering, Science, and Technology Charles J. Robinson. 67-1... 

Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Harvard Medical School, and Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Judy Cezeaux, PhD Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Engineering, Western New England College, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA... 

In this section of the handbook, we focus only on applications of rehabilitation engineering. The concepts of rehabflitation engineering, rehabilitation science, and rehabilitation technology are outHned in Chapter 67. Chapter 69 discusses the importance of personal mobility and various wheeled modes of transportation (wheelchairs, scooters, cars, vans, and public conveyances). Chapter 70 looks at other non-wheeled ways to enhance mobility and physical performance. Chapter 71 covers techniques available to augment sensory impairments or to provide a substitute to input sensory information. Conversely, Chapter 72 looks at the output side. 

In this section of the handbook we focus only on applications of rehabilitation engineering. The basic concepts of rehabilitation engineering, rehabilitation science, and rehabilitation technology are outlined in Robinson s Chapter 43. Two chapters in this section cover sensory input, and two cover movement or communication output. Gill (Chapter 41) and Remus (Chapter 40) cover sensory rehabilitation or remediation (blindness and low vision, deafness, and hearing loss). Fite s Chapter 42 looks at orthopedic rehabilitation in terms of prosthetics. Hill, Romich, and Vanderheiden (Chapter 47) look at the output side as they explore augmentative and alternative communication systems and their scientific bases. Treffler s Chapter 49 covers concepts involved in the day-to-day provision of rehabilitation technology. 

Born in 1965 in Utrecht, the Netherlands, Marjolein van der Meulen received her Bachelors degree in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1987. Thereafter, she received her MS (1989) and PhD (1993) from Stanford University. She spent three years as a biomedical engineer at the Rehabilitation R D Center of the Department of Veterans Affairs in Palo Alto, CA. In 1996, Marjolein joined the faculty of Cornell University as an Assistant Professor in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. She is also an Assistant Scientist at the Hospital for Special Surgery, New York. She received a FIRST Award from the National Institutes of Health in 1995 and a Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation in 1999. Her scientific interests include skeletal mechanobiology and bone structural behavior. 

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