1. New technologies in rehabilitation

According to a study performed by King’s College London, 613 148 europeans suffered a stroke in 2015. As the name implies, strokes are unpredictable - a sudden “brain attack” that can have a mild or devastating impact, depending on the area of the brain affected and the severity of the stroke.

On average 65 percent of stroke patients require some level of rehabilitative therapy. That can range from relearning basic activities of daily living (ADLs) such as speaking, managing personal hygiene or getting dressed to building back strength and dexterity in the affected limbs.[Patient Bond]

The patients often struggle with accessibility and availability of therapy sessions, while therapists struggle with quantitative monitoring of rehabilitation progress.

There is a potential for widespread tailored use of technologies in rehabilitation to increase the dose of repetitive exercise without dramatic increases in staff costs. Within a rehabilitation center a therapist can use technology to provide a better rehabilitation while working with one or two patients at the same time. If the patient has enough autonomy some of the rehabilitation exercises can be performed at home with some kind of remote supervision of the therapist.
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