Rehabilitation Engineering Applied to Mobility and Manipulation

A wide-ranging but concise introduction to the legislative, technological, testing & design basis of rehabilitation engineering including the fundamentals of design & materials & a full account of the biomechanics of rehabilitation. Deals with various aspects of mobility, including detailed discussion of wheelchair design. Valuable additional material deals with seating prosthetic devices, robotics, recreational devices & vehicles. Includes more than a thousand references to the research & review literature.