Telerehabilitation represents a treatment modality that allows to provide remote rehabilitation services with the support of new technologies (video, websites, computer programs...). Different types of telerehabilitation treatments (synchronous, asynchronous, and mixed) and their relative intensities and duration have been reported. Moreover, COVID-19 has widely affected delivery of health care and telerehabilitation and has emerged as innovative alternative care model, that is not intended to replace traditional rehabilitation services, but to enhance their effectiveness, allowing greater autonomy and the maintenance of results over time.
The purpose of this Research Topic is to collect works related to the various modalities of rehabilitation through telemedicine in different fields of application: musculoskeletal, neurological, cardiorespiratory, oncological diseases, etc. The final goal is to collect information regarding the effectiveness and future of this new modality of patient management, which has become even more important in the COVID-19 era, and the proposals of treatment protocols that can be used in different pathologies.
We welcome the submission of manuscripts including, but not limited to, the following topics:
• The importance of telemedicine in the outpatient’s rehabilitation setting in the COVID-19 era.
• The efficacy and safety of telerehabilitation in patients suffering from musculoskeletal, rheumatic, neurological
(both central and peripheral), cardiologic and respiratory diseases.
• The usefulness of telerehabilitation in the fragile oncologic patient.
• Novel telecommunication modalities in telerehabilitation.
• How synchronous, asynchronous, and mixed methods can enhance the design of the personalized
rehabilitation concepts
• Future innovative methods for further improve the efficacy of telerehabilitation
Keywords: Telemedicine, Outpatient Rehabilitation, Rehabilitation Setting, modalities of rehabilitation
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