Rehabilitation Engineering detailed syllabus for Biomedical Engineering (BME) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the BME students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Biomedical Engineering 6th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit BME 6th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-IV scheme and its subjects refer to BME Professional Elective-IV syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of rehabilitation engineering is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
INTRODUCTION TO REHABILITATION
Definition – Impairments, disabilities and handicaps, Primary and secondary disabilities, Activities of daily living, Appropriate Technology, Residual function. Rehabilitation. Rehabilitation team -members and their functions. Rehabilitation care -Need for proper delivery of rehabilitation care, Community based rehabilitation and its aspects.
Unit II
ENGINEERING CONCEPTS IN SENSORY AUGMENTATION AND SUBSTITUTION
Sensory augmentation and substitution- Visual system: Visual augmentation, Tactual vision substitution, and Auditory vision substitution. Auditory system- Auditory augmentation, Hearing aids, cochlear implants, visual auditory substitution, tactual auditory substitution. Tactual system -Tactual augmentation, Tactual substitution.
Unit III
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Unit IV
VIRTUAL REALITY
Introduction to virtual reality, Virtual reality based rehabilitation, Hand motor recovery systems with Phantom haptics, Robotics and Virtual Reality Applications in Mobility Rehabilitation.
Unit V
REHABILITATION MEDICINE AND ADVOCACY
Physiological aspects of Function recovery, Psychological aspects of Rehabilitation therapy, Legal aspect available in choosing the device and provision available in education, job and in day-to-day life.
Course Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to
- Summarize the key terminologies used by the rehabilitation team.
- Illustrate Engineering Concepts in Sensory & Motor rehabilitation.
- Design different orthotics and prosthetics for rehabilitation applications.
- Summarize the need of virtual reality tools for different aids.
- Appraise the legal aspects for building rehabilitation aids for the needed people.
Text Books:
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Reference Books:
- Sashi S Kommu, “Rehabilitation Robotics”, 1st edition, CRC Press, 2007.
- Sunder, “Textbooks of Rehabilitation”, Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi, 2nd Edition, Reprint 2007.
- Horia- Nocholai Teodorecu, L.C.Jain, “Intelligent systems and technologies in rehabilitation Engineering”, CRC; December 2000
- Etienne Grandjean, Harold Oldroyd, “Fitting the task to the man”, Taylor & Francis, 1988.
- Keswick. J., “What is Rehabilitation Engineering, Annual Reviews of Rehabilitation”, Springer Verlag, New York, 1982.
- Warren E. Finn, Peter G. Lopressor, “Handbook of Neuroprosthetic Methods”,CRC, 2002.
- Roy A Cooper (Editor), Hisaichi Ohnabe (Editor), Douglas A. Hobson (Editor), “An Introduction to Rehabilitation Engineering (Series in Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering” CRC Press, 2000
For detailed syllabus of all the other subjects of Biomedical Engineering 6th Sem, visit BME 6th Sem subject syllabuses for 2021 regulation.
For all Biomedical Engineering results, visit Anna University BME all semester results direct link.