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POTENTIAL OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES IN NEUROREHABILITATION OF POST-COVID SYNDROME (WITH PRESENTATION OF CLINICAL CASES), Ivet B. Koleva, Radoslav R. Yoshinov, Borislav R. Yoshinov
Abstract: In the environment of the actual COVID-19 pandemic, the challenges before the
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation are important. We observe many clinical problems –
during the acute period and in Post-COVID syndrome. In clinical rehabilitation practice, our
work is oriented principally to post-COVID-patients with cardio-vascular, neurological,
neuro-cognitive and psychic disorders.
During last years, we perceive introduction of information and communication technologies
(ICT) in every field, including in rehabilitation, with thematic fields: education, diagnostic
and treatment.
Neurorehabilitation is an interdisciplinary domain between neurology, neurosurgery,
physical and rehabilitation medicine (PRM).
In clinical rehabilitation practice, ICT are useful in diagnostic and therapy [1]. For
diagnostic goals, we apply ICT for electroneurgraphy and electromyography, excitomotory
electrodiagnistic, stabilometry. In the domain of Neurorehabilitation, we use ICT for training
of movements by functional electrical stimulations [1], training of movements of lower
extremities with Exoskeleton with Hybrid Assistive Limb (HAL) [2,3]; training of movements
of upper extremities with a virtual computer-based system (TYRO-system) [4], training of the
balance and gait with LOCOMAT [3].
For illustration, we present the potential of contemporaneous ICT methods (robotic
rehabilitation, exoskeletons, virtual reality, Locomat) in some clinical cases of post-COVID
patients with vertebra-basilar insufficiency, post-stroke hemiparesis, motor-neuron disease,
Guillain-Barre syndrome [1,5].
Keywords: neurorehabilitation, post-COVID-syndrom, robotic rehabilitation, virtual reality