Key Highlights :
1. Neurotechnology has grown 500 per cent in the last 10 years and is expected to expand much further in the coming decade.
2. Even if robotic rehabilitation does not promise return to normalcy, there are several advantages this therapy offers to the severely afflicted paralyzed patient, such as the benefits that antigravity postures such as standing and walking confer to humans- increase in bone density, improved bowel movements, decrease in pain, improved cholesterol and sugar metabolism, less rate of cardiovascular diseases, reduction of spasticity, decreased tendency to pressure sores.
3. It is crucial to combine robotic rehabilitation with other therapeutic modalities in order to provide feedback and motivation to the patient.
4. Seeing is after all believing.
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