Ten years of telerehabilitation: A literature overview of technologies and clinical applications
Abstract
This paper aims at delivering a structured overview of telerehabilitation literature by analysing the entire set of articles under the search terms "telerehabilitation" or "tele-rehabilitation" to portray "state of the art" ten years after the publication of the first scientific article on the topic. A structured study has been conducted by considering all those articles containing the word "telerehabilitation" or "tele-rehabilitation". Medline, Embase, Cochrane, UK Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health databases have been interrogated for articles between 1998 and 2008. 146 scientific articles were found. 56 articles focus on patient treatment, 23 are reviews, 3 are to be considered as both patient treatment papers and reviews, 53 are either technical reports, system descriptions or analyses of new approaches; 8 are general discussion on telerehabilitation. The present paper draw the scenario of the first ten years of telerehabilitation, focussing on clinical applications and technologies. Basically, it confirms the lack of comprehensive studies providing evidence for supporting decision and policy-makers in adopting telerehabilitation technologies in the clinical practice. An overall lack of standardisation in the used terminology also results from the analysis of keywords, which is typical of quite recent fields of application.
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Synchronous telehealthcare, such as video-conferencing, was suitable for delivery of some rehabilitation techniques after stroke and spinal cord injury.
“Synchronous telehealthcare, such as video-conferencing, was suitable for the delivery of some rehabilitation techniques after stroke and spinal cord injury [75], [84].”
From The Impact of Telehealthcare on the Quality and Safety of Care: A Systematic Overview (2013) · cites this paper as [75]
Conclusions regarding the effectiveness of telerehabilitation are premature because only 13 of 56 included experimental studies involved a group of more than 20 patients, and not all of these studies were of robust design.
“However, conclusions regarding the effectiveness of telerehabilitation are premature as only 13 of the 56 included experimental studies involved a group of more than 20 patients, and not all of these studies were of robust design [75].”
From The Impact of Telehealthcare on the Quality and Safety of Care: A Systematic Overview (2013) · cites this paper as [75]
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- Authors
- Rogante, M., Grigioni, M., Cordella, D., & Giacomozzi, C.
- Affiliations
- Istituto Superiore di Sanità (IT)
- Venue
- NeuroRehabilitation
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2010-12-03
- Volume
- 27
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 287-304
- ISSN
- 1053-8135 (ISSN-L)
- 1878-6448
- OpenAlex
- W1509407309
- Cited by
- 207
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 8 · 2025: 12 · 2024: 32 · 2023: 22 · 2022: 13 · 2021: 22 · 2020: 14 · 2019: 12 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 10 · 2016: 10 · 2015: 15 · 2014: 6 · 2013: 18 · 2012: 3
- FWCI
- 8.60
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Neurorehabilitation (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Rehabilitation › Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation › Medical Practices and Rehabilitation
- Keywords
- telerehabilitation, telemedicine, clinical application, evidence base, terminology standardization
- MeSH terms
- Humans, Rehabilitation, Telemedicine, Biomedical Technology
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