Rehabilitation Technology in Practice: Evidence-Based Application Guide
From robot-assisted gait training to transcranial magnetic stimulation and home cardiac rehab, this guide sets out which rehabilitation technologies have real evidence, the doses used, and the safety limits.
Rehabilitation is no longer only hands and exercise mats. Robotics, electrical stimulation, brain stimulation and remote monitoring are now part of routine practice in Chinese rehabilitation departments, and the national guideline on clinical application of rehabilitation technology exists to say which of these tools have evidence behind them, how they should be dosed, and where the safety limits are.
How the evidence is graded
Five categories of technology
Principles that govern use
Neurological rehabilitation
For spinal cord injury, intermittent catheterisation every four to six hours plus pelvic floor stimulation keeps urinary infection rates low. Spasticity is managed with oral baclofen combined with botulinum toxin injections into targeted muscles. Body-weight-supported gait training starts with 30 to 50 percent of weight unloaded.
