A Survey on Perspective about the Role of Robotics in Neurorehabilitation among Physiotherapists of Ahmedabad

Abstract

Background: The world health organization estimates that approximately 15% of the world’s population has a few forms of disability. Rehabilitation has a key role in reducing the level of disability. Application of robotics devices in rehabilitation help to achieve this goal. Robot–mediated neurorehabilitation is a growing and advanced field for treating neurological disease. The effectiveness of robotics therapy is ambiguous. Robotics therapy is a novice treatment in the physiotherapy profession and not that much-studied are executed in the field of robotics. Aims and Objective: To determine the attitude towards the role of robotics in neurorehabilitation among physiotherapists of Ahmedabad. Methodology: A cross-sectional observational study was conducted in 128 physiotherapists of Ahmedabad and snowball sampling was used. An online survey becomes executed with a self-reliant questionnaire. The questionnaire contains questions associated with perspectives about the role of robotics in neurorehabilitation. The statistical evaluation became accomplished with Microsoft Excel 2019. Result: Our finding suggests that from the 128 subjects, 95(74%) were agreed robotics play important role in neurorehabilitation, 22(17%) were Neutral, and 11(9%) disagreed. Conclusion: We found that most of the physiotherapists think robotics devices play important role in neurorehabilitation. 17% of physiotherapists are not sure and the rest of the physiotherapists think robotics devices do not play important role in neurorehabilitation. Key words: Neurorehabilitation robot, Qualified Physiotherapists, Ahmedabad.