ABSTRACT

Rehabilitation engineering requires a multidisciplinary eort. To put rehabilitation engineering into its proper context, we need to review some of the other disciplines with which rehabilitation engineers must be familiar. Robinson (1993) has reviewed or put forth the following working denitions and discussions:

Rehabilitation is the (re)integration of an individual with a disability into society. is can be done either by enhancing existing capabilities or by providing alternative means to perform various functions or to substitute for specic sensations.