EM Technology for Healthcare and Rehabilitation Applications

Population aging urgently demands innovation in healthcare and rehabilitation. Electromagnetics (EM) technology, both traditional and emerging ones, could be the source of the innovation, because not only it provides a fundamental understanding of the interaction between human body and its environment, but also its underlying processes act constantly on this interaction in real world. In this paper, several R&D cases for EM technology in healthcare and rehabilitation, categorized into EM for monitoring human functions, and EM as driving mechanisms for human functions, will be given, as well as a prospective view on their future trends.