Robot assisted therapy

In recent years, the use of robotics and new technologies in children’s rehabilitation has increased as they offer several advantages: increasing sensorimotor feedback, favouring motor learning and neuroplasticity, favouring the learning of functional movements and providing the professional with the objective measurements recorded by each device for both evaluation and treatment progression.

These measurements are collected and stored and can be compared over time, providing objective data on the child’s evolution. On the other hand, they can perform repetitive tasks with great reliability, precision and resistance, favouring the intensity of the treatment and the number of repetitions.

The use of robotics and new technologies in children’s rehabilitation provides the child with great motivation as it is something new and technological, encouraging their active participation and the integration of motor learning in the central nervous system, creating greater adherence to treatment. The control of the difficulty of the task helps the professional to be able to graduate the activity, provoking a greater challenge to the child and always obtaining a positive result.