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The present review is focused on the randomized controlled trials and meta-analyses in the field of technological means for neurorehabilitation. The available literature data and the results of original observations provide a basis for distinguishing between the following levels of evidence: instrumental verticalization--2a, robot-assisted mechanotherapy--1a, biological feedback--1a, virtual reality--1a, transcranial magnetic stimulation--1a for central hemiparesis and 1b for speech disturbance and unilateral spatial agnosia, transcranial electrical stimulation--2b, electromyostimulation--1a, telerehabilitation--3. It is concluded that the use of the innovative technologies for the purpose of neurorehabiltation is objectively substantiated. Further investigations are needed to allow their application on an individual basis.

The Federal Medical and Rehabilitation Center of the Russian Health Ministry Health is a unique therapeutic and prophylactic setting. Its unique character is attributable to the fact that it incorporates specialized clinical departments that provide high-tech medical care and the Center for Restorative Medicine and Rehabilitation. Collaboration of these units permits to initiate rehabilitative measures from the very first day of the patient's stay in the hospital with due regard for the nosological form of his (her) disease. The activities of the Center for Restorative Medicine and Rehabilitation are based on the application of up-to-date remediation technologies that ensure the long-term rehabilitative effect and allow the duration of hospital stay to be decreased. During many years of practical work, the Centre has developed the proper organizational structure and gained a vast experience of comprehensive early rehabilitation after the most common diseases that was summarized by its specialists in numerous publications and theses and was many times reported at various scientific forums in this country and abroad.