Editorial Technological Advances in Instrumental Assessment in Rehabilitation

Copyright © 2015 Giorgio Ferriero et al.This is an open access article distributed under theCreativeCommonsAttribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. In rehabilitation research, interest in instrumental assessment is rapidly growing, particularly in the last decade. A large number of tools for instrumental assessment are now avail-able, evaluating different aspects of the single patient or patient groups. Most of these assessment tools are disease-specific and common to other medical disciplines, for exam-ple, goniometers, and clinical tests or scales that monitor patient impairment [1]. Technological advances now make it possible to perform an in-depth evaluation of patients, ana-lyzing their abilities across a wide range of performances. In rehabilitation, high-technology assessment tools mainly con-cern diagnostic devices—used to obtain outcome measure-ments of variables of interest—or specific equipment that i