Towards At-Home Physiotherapy: Next Generation Teleconferencing and Surface Based Interventions
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Introduction Hundreds of thousands of Canadians regularly sustain soft tissue injuries best suited for physiotherapy intervention, but many of these Canadians live in rural areas—away from the urban centres where most physiotherapists practice. This chapter describes two threads of work to address this problem: first, explorations of teleconferencing technologies to enable physiotherapy “visits” with remote practitioners, and second, explorations of at-home technologies that can support daily physiotherapy exercise. We discuss promising avenues of inquiry, and outline paths for ongoing future work.
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