Rehabilitation interventions in remote areas are problematic because of distance and available resources. Orthopedic impairments acquired by individuals in remote areas can then lead to permanent disabilities/loss of function because of lack of appropriate rehabilitation. A system being developed by Rutgers and Stanford Universities provides therapy at the patient's home, with remote monitoring...

Paper describes a proposed teletherapy architecture for speech/language therapy, discusses the current state of the architecture, and describes future efforts in development and evaluation. Virtual CosmoBot is a motivating, computer-based character designed to enhance children’s communication skills and stimulate verbal interaction during the remediation of speech and language disorders via tel...

Stroke is the main reason for disabilities of increasing geriatric population. It affects brain and motor function domains significantly reducing life quality. Recent coronavirus pandemic raised a question on changing approaches to deliver post-stroke rehabilitation services patients due their high risk serious illness. This paper presents an overview current telerehabilitation recovery balance...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this article is to describe the development and testing of a prototype application ("The Heart Game") using gamification principles to assist heart patients in their telerehabilitation process in the Teledialog project. MATERIALS AND METHODS A prototype game was developed via user-driven innovation and tested on 10 patients 48-89 years of age and their relatives for a per...

Background The need for efficacy in voice rehabilitation in patients with Parkinson's disease is well established. Given difficulties traveling from home to treatment centers, the use of telerehabilitation may represent an invaluable tool for many patients. Objective To analyze the influence of cognitive performance on acceptance of telerehabilitation. Methods Fifty patients at stages 2-4 o...

BACKGROUND Telerehabilitation allows rehabilitative training to continue remotely after discharge from acute care and can include complex tasks known to create rich conditions for neural change. OBJECTIVES The purposes of this study were: (1) to explore the feasibility of using telerehabilitation to improve ankle dorsiflexion during the swing phase of gait in people with stroke and (2) to com...

BACKGROUND Cardiac telerehabilitation has been introduced as an adjunct or alternative to conventional center-based cardiac rehabilitation to increase its long-term effectiveness. However, before large-scale implementation and reimbursement in current health care systems is possible, well-designed studies on the effectiveness of this new additional treatment strategy are needed. OBJECTIVE The...

BACKGROUND Telerehabilitation has been proposed as an adjunct/alternative to standard center-based cardiac rehabilitation. Two recent systematic reviews showed non-inferiority and/or superiority of this remote approach for cardiac rehabilitation. However, these trials focused only on one core component of cardiac rehabilitation and telemonitoring, rather than implementing a more comprehensive a...

BACKGROUND Cardiac rehabilitation has beneficial effects on morbidity and mortality in patients with coronary artery disease, but is vastly underutilised and short-term improvements are often not sustained. Telerehabilitation has the potential to overcome these barriers, but its superiority has not been convincingly demonstrated yet. This may be due to insufficient focus on behavioural change a...