Disabil Rehabil. 2012;34(22):1853-4. doi: 10.3109/09638288.2012.670023. Epub 2012 Apr 12.
For some people, the word "technology" in rehabilitation brings to mind equipment and assistive devices. For others - it is a brave new frontier where robotic advance means many of the functional consequences of impairment are/will be alleviated, and many roles health professionals and carers currently perform will disappear. Like most things in life, a simplistic interpretation in complexity rarely capture what is truly going on. This is certainly true for rehabilitation technologies where devices are clearly important for our clients and for our professions but, it is not just about gadgets - it is far more than that. Of the numerous definitions available, most have in common a notion of tools to apply knowledge to practical issues or, as noted in the Britannica Concise Encyclopaedia [ 1 ]: "Whereas science is concerned with how and why things happen, technology focuses on making things happen".
对于一些人来说，康复领域的“技术”一词会让人联想到设备和辅助器具。而对于另一些人来说，技术是一个充满挑战的全新领域，机器人技术的进步意味着许多功能障碍的后果将得到缓解，许多卫生专业人员和护理人员目前所扮演的角色将会消失。和生活中的大多数事物一样，过于简单的解释往往无法准确描述实际情况。这在康复技术中尤其如此，设备对于我们的客户和我们的职业来说非常重要，但它不仅仅是小工具——它远不止于此。在众多可用的定义中，大多数都有一个将知识应用于实际问题的工具的概念，或者正如《大英简明百科全书》[1]所指出的：“科学关注的是事物是如何以及为什么发生的，而技术则专注于使事物发生”。
