Editorial New Technologies for Stroke Rehabilitation

Copyright © 2013 Marco Iosa et al. is is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. “Real progress happens only when advantages of a new technology become available to everybody ” said Henry Ford; we would add “or to the most disadvantaged people.” Stroke is the leading cause of disability in all industrial-ized countries. Common rehabilitation usually allows about 50 % of patients with stroke to recover walking, leaving the others not independent in walking and other activities of daily living [1]. For these reasons, an increasing number of researches are pursuing the use of new technologies to improve the efficacy of rehabilitation. For example, over the last decade, many devices for robotic-assisted training have been developed to allow patients to perform early, intensive, and task-oriented exercises [2, 3], and wearabl