Author/Editor		Stanič, U
Title		Action plan for FES 2000 and beyond
Type		članek
Source		In: IFESS'99. Proceedings of the 4th annual conference of the international functional electrical stimulation society; 1999 Aug 23-27; Sendai. Sendai: International functional electrical stimulation society,
Publication year		1999
Volume		str. 9-12
Language		eng
Abstract		The FES field during the last 35 years became scientifically, technologically and clinically recognised field of mutual public interest. FES enables locomotion, grasping, ventilation, incontinence, decubitus healing etc. But all these achievements can be understand only as the top of the iceberg of FES real potentials. The FES based therapies offer only the most simple set of functional movements compared to the richness of the natural ones. Sometimes the benefits are too poor and patients reject further use of FES devices during their activities of daily living. The main reason for that lies in the out-of date servomechanistic FES control and lean complexity and sophistication of the FES systems. The developments in the beginning of 2000 should be devoted to three main directions:1) Perfection of the present FES approach making the FES systems more efficient and less cumbersome and enable its dissemination to acute phase of illnesses and elderly population; 2) Introduce, by extensive basic research and exploiting results of other disciplines like bioinformation, more powerful control principles, based on the immense redundancy of the central nervous system 3) The FES devices of 21st century will talk to the brain and will execute the patients will or desire for functional activities without any delay and effort. We hope that we shall still see this achievements that can be made only by the youngest researchers of the coming generations.
Descriptors		ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY ORTHOTIC DEVICES QUALITY OF LIFE ELECTROMYOGRAPHY