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Rehabilitation engineering applied to mobility and manipulation / Rory A. Cooper.
LIBRA RM950 .C66 1995
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cooper, Rory A.
- Series:
- Medical science series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rehabilitation technology.
- Human mechanics.
- Wheelchairs.
- Manipulation (Therapeutics).
- Rehabilitation--instrumentation.
- Biomedical Engineering.
- Equipment Design.
- Wheelchairs--standards.
- Medical Subjects:
- Rehabilitation--instrumentation.
- Biomedical Engineering.
- Equipment Design.
- Wheelchairs--standards.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 516 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol ; Philadelphia : Institute of Physics Pub., [1995]
- Summary:
- The relatively young discipline of rehabilitation engineering draws on a wide range of specialist knowledge from the biomedical sciences to materials technology. The book begins with a wide-ranging but concise introduction to the legislative, technological, testing and design basis of rehabilitation engineering and follows this up with the fundamentals of design and materials and a full account of the biomechanics of rehabilitation. Major sections of the book are devoted to various aspects of mobility, including detailed discussion of wheelchair design. Valuable additional material deals with seating, prosthetic devices, robotics and the often-neglected subject of recreational devices and vehicles. More than a thousand references to the research and review literature put the reader in touch with the leading edge of a rapidly growing field.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0750303433
- 9780750303439
- OCLC:
- 33077354
- Online:
- Publisher description
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