B.E. (Biomedical Engineering) Rehabilitation Engineering Abbreviated As RE Syllabus - Mumbai University 2026
This is the Fourth Year Biomedical Rev 2019 C Scheme syllabus under REV-2019 'C' Scheme, in force from the academic year 2022-23. The University has not yet published an NEP 2020 syllabus above Semester IV for this branch, and this is the scheme its examinations are set on.
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Syllabus for Rehabilitation Engineering (Abbreviated as RE)
Module 1
- Introduction and socio-legal aspects of rehabilitation engineering: Medical rehabilitation, epidemiology of rehabilitation, preventive rehabilitation, impairment disability and handicap.
Module 2: Orthotics, amputation, and prosthetics, activities of daily living (ADL): Orthotics: General principles of orthotics, biomechanics of orthotics, classification: upper & lower extremity orthotics, spinal orthotics
- Amputation & prosthetics: Causes of amputation, types of amputation, and levels of amputation for upper and lower extremity, preoperative and post-operative period. pre-prosthetic stage, endo & exo-skeletal prosthetics, classification of upper & lower limb prosthetics Activities of daily living: ADL grouping, Barthel’s index of ADL, functional independence, measures, environmental control system, communication, ADL training.
Module 3: Mechanical principles of Kinematics and Kinetics:
- Planar classification of position and motion, rotary and translatory motion, degree of freedom, kinematic chain theories of motion, levers, torque, parallel force, resolution of force, calculation of muscle and joint forces Clinical application on weight and center of gravity ,applied weights and resistance, muscle force and leverage, joint forces, clinical application on stretching versus joint mobilization.
Module 4
- Flow properties of blood: An outline of blood rheology, constitutive equation of blood based viscometric data and Casson’s equation, laminar flow of blood in a tube, fluid mechanical interaction of RBCs with a solid wall, thrombus formation and dissolution, medical application of blood rheology.
Module 5
- Common deformities and role of surgery in rehabilitation engineering. Types of deformities, management of 1 st and 2nd degree deformities, common deformities of lower limb, treatment for partial foot deformities, deformities of the foot, arm Deformities, torticollis
Module 6: An overview of rehabilitation of muscular dystrophy, paraplegia, and quadriplegia: Muscular dystrophy, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, rehabilitation, facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy
- Paraplegia: Etiology, mechanism of injury, identification of level of lesion, management of active spinal cord injury, rehabilitation, gait training Quadriplegia: Mobility, training, level of injury & outcome, management.
Text books
- 1 BRUNNSTROM'S CLINICAL KINESIOLOG, By Laura K Smith, Elizabeth Laurance Weiss; Jaypee brothers Publication
- 2 Mechanical properties of living tissues by Y. C. Fung
- 1 Textbook of Rehabilitation by S. Sundar,3rd edition Jaypee publication Theory Examination:
Reproduced from the University of Mumbai syllabus for B.E. (Biomedical Engineering) under REV-2019 'C' Scheme, in force from the academic year 2022-23. Wording is as printed in that syllabus. Module numbering is as printed there too.
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