ABSTRACT
The remarkable innovations in science and technology that have occurred over the last fifty years have tremendous potential to improve rehabilitation by enhancing approaches to therapeutic interventions and improving service delivery. Concomitant with innovations in technology, a major shift in conceptual frameworks for science and medicine has occurred. Conceptual frameworks are habitual ways of thinking that provide the lens through which problems are viewed; they influence solutions that are considered and stimulate us to ask some questions while ignoring other questions or issues. Innovations in technology are adapted and used in rehabilitation within a context. Therefore, it is important to examine scientific conceptual frameworks and consider the effect they have on the use of technology in rehabilitation.
