The Role of Haptics in Pediatric Rehabilitation

Haptic is derived to the Greek word that means the sense of touch. Haptic is consisted of kinesthetic and tactile. Areas of Haptics are divided into machine, computer and human haptics. In haptic technology, human sense of touch have coupled with computer and used mainly in creating and controlling virtual objects. Haptics technology can be used to train people for task requiring hand-eye coordination. Haptic interface is included as haptics technology, it is a system that allows a human to interact with a computer through bodily sensations and movements. Haptics in medical rehabilitation has a primary purpose to recover or improve the impairments. Haptics is proven to be beneficial in medical rehabilitation for disability children to improve their haptic perception development, overall cognitive and social interaction in the long term. In conclusion, Movement disorders in children are causally and clinically heterogeneous and present in a challenging developmental contexts. The haptics technology should be categorized as the complement of conventional therapy in pediatric rehabilitation that motivating, allows for high repetition therapy, and improves outcomes recording and feedback.