When 63-year-old Mr Tan had his first stroke, his right side became paralysed, his speech became slurred, and he was unable to rise from his bed.
Each year, around 20,000 people in Singapore suffer from major health conditions such as stroke, heart attack and cancer, which require acute care and rehabilitation to restore them to health through training and therapy.has made it difficult to provide optimal care for those who need it most. A leukaemia patient using a robotic exoskeleton for assisted walking at the Clinic for Advanced Rehabilitation Therapeutics at Tan Tock Seng Hospital. PHOTO: ST FILE
Technology has been instrumental in enabling care teams to make rehabilitation more effective and efficient.
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