Implementation of physiotherapy telerehabilitation before and post Covid-19 outbreak: A comparative narrative between South American countries and Australia

• Main Authors: Antonio Michell (Author), Manuela Besomi (Author), Pamela Seron (Author), Matías Voigt (Author), Rodrigo Cubillos (Author), Felipe Parada-Hernández (Author), Oscar Urrejola (Author), Thaiana Barbosa Ferreira-Pacheco (Author), Danilo de Oliveira-Silva (Author), Jéssica Bianca Aily (Author), Jorge Enrique Moreno-Collazos (Author), Iván Darío Pinzón-Ríos (Author), Clara Liliana Aguirre-Aguirre (Author), Rana S Hinman (Author), Kim L Bennell (Author), Trevor G Russell (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, 2022-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Summary

The continuous development in telecommunication tech­nologies has created opportunities for health professionals to optimise healthcare delivery by adopting digital tools into rehabilitation programs (i.e., telerehabilitation). These tech­nological advances, along with the demographic and social characteristics of each country, have made the implementa­tion of telerehabilitation a disparate process across regions. We have gathered the experience of four countries (Australia, Chile, Brazil, and Colombia) in two different regions (Ocea­nia and South America) to recompile the history pre- and post-Covid-19 outbreak until January of 2021, the barriers to, and facilitators of telerehabilitation, and outline the future challenges for these countries.

Item Description

0036-3634
10.21149/13160