Current Approaches in Telehealth and Telerehabilitation for Spinal Cord Injury (TeleSCI)

Touchett, Hilary; Apodaca, Calvin R.; Siddiqui, Sameer; Huang, Donna; Helmer, Drew A.; Lindsay, Jan A.; Ramaswamy, Padmavathy; Marchant-Miros, Kathy; Skelton, Felicia

doi:10.1007/s40141-022-00348-5

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“…Proposed methods of telehealth communication for patients with SCI may include audio‐only, audio‐visual, and other platforms. A second review advocates for telehealth to be utilized for transitions of care, access to care in rural areas, preventive health and wellness, bowel and bladder management, chronic pain, anxiety, and depression 148 …”

Section: Pediatric Rehabilitation Recommendationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Telehealth in PM&R: Past, present, and future in clinical practice and opportunities for translational research

Tenforde,

Alexander,

Alexander

et al. 2023

PM&R

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Telehealth refers to the use of telecommunication devices and other forms of technology to provide services outside of the traditional in‐person health care delivery system. Growth in the use of telehealth creates new challenges and opportunities for implementation in clinical practice. The American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (AAPM&R) assembled an expert group to develop a white paper to examine telehealth innovation in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R). The resultant white paper summarizes how telehealth is best used in the field of PM&R while highlighting current knowledge deficits and technological limitations. The report identifies new and transformative opportunities for PM&R to advance translational research related to telehealth and enhance patient care.

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Section: Pediatric Rehabilitation Recommendationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Telehealth in PM&R: Past, present, and future in clinical practice and opportunities for translational research

Tenforde,

Alexander,

Alexander

et al. 2023

PM&R

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“…Furthermore, telemedicine for physiatry would be beneficial to minimize COVID-19 exposure risk in often medically vulnerable populations. Since the onset of COVID-19 in 2020, several studies describe the benefits of telemedicine in rehabilitation populations and patient and/or provider satisfaction, primarily for outpatient sports and musculoskeletal issues in adults and children (7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14), spinal cord injury (15)(16)(17), cancer rehabilitation (18), and chronic pain (19)(20)(21). With the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a growing need for medical centers to convert traditional, in-person patient encounters to telehealth formats.…”

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“…With the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a growing need for medical centers to convert traditional, in-person patient encounters to telehealth formats. Published reports document this change in outpatient and inpatient rehabilitation settings and various locations, e.g., United States, Europe, and Asia (7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(16)(17)(18)(19)(20)(21)(22). To date, less is known about the benefits or experiences in physiatry practices for other neurological conditions, in coordinated multidisciplinary team settings, or in comparisons across different clinical rehabilitation populations.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Patient experiences receiving rehabilitation care via telehealth: Identifying opportunities for remote care

Goldman

Merkitch²,

Brewington³

et al. 2023

Front. Rehabil. Sci.

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Use of telehealth has grown substantially in recent times due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Remote care services may greatly benefit patients with disabilities; chronic conditions; and neurological, musculoskeletal, and pain disorders, thereby allowing continuity of rehabilitation care, reducing barriers such as transportation, and minimizing COVID-19 exposure. In March 2020, our rehabilitation hospital, Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, launched a HIPAA-compliant telemedicine program for outpatient and day rehabilitation clinics and telerehabilitation therapy programs. The objective of this study was to examine patients' experiences and satisfaction with telemedicine in the rehabilitation physician practice, including novel virtual multidisciplinary evaluations. The present study examines survey data collected from 157 patients receiving telemedicine services at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab from December 2020–August 2021. Respondents were 61.8% female, predominantly White (82.2%) with ages ranging across the lifespan (69.4% over age 50 years). Diagnostic categories of the respondents included: musculoskeletal conditions 28%, chronic pain 22.3%, localized pain 10.2%, neurological conditions 26.8%, and Parkinson's and movement disorders 12.7%. Survey responses indicate that the telemedicine experiences were positive and well received. The majority of participants found these services easy to use, effective, and safe, and were overall satisfied with the attention and care they received from the providers—even for those who had not previously used telehealth. Respondents identified a variety of benefits, including alleviating financial and travel-related burdens. There were no significant differences in telehealth experiences or satisfaction across the different clinical diagnostic groups. Respondents viewed the integrated physician and rehabilitation therapist telehealth multidisciplinary model favorably, citing positive feedback regarding receiving multiple perspectives and recommendations, feeling like an integrated member of their healthcare team, and having a comprehensive, holistic team approach along with effective communication. These findings support that telemedicine can provide an effective care model in physiatry (physical medicine and rehabilitation) clinics, across different neurological, musculoskeletal, and pain conditions and in multidisciplinary team care settings. The insights provided by the present study expand our understanding of patient experiences with remote care frameworks for rehabilitation care, while controlling for institutional variation, and ultimately will help provide guidance regarding longer term integration of telemedicine in physiatry and multidisciplinary care models.

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“…are met [ 5 , 14 ]. The growing prevalence and positive effects of additional measuring instruments, electronic devices such as wearable sensors, TR-friendly apps, software, and virtual reality (VR) should also be emphasized [ 15 , 16 , 17 ]. It should also be stated that regardless of COVID-19, telerehabilitation might be a key factor for people with disabilities, both temporary and permanent.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Impact of Personality Traits on Patient Satisfaction after Telerehabilitation: A Comparative Study of Remote and Face-to-Face Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation during COVID-19 Lockdown

Cieślik

Kuligowski

Cacciante

et al. 2023

IJERPH

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This study aimed to evaluate the differences in patient satisfaction between telerehabilitation and traditional face-to-face rehabilitation and to identify the impact of personality traits on patient satisfaction with the remote form of rehabilitation. Eighty participants with musculoskeletal pain were recruited for the study. The telerehabilitation group (n = 40) completed a single remote session of rehabilitation, whereas the traditional rehabilitation group (n = 40) completed a single face-to-face session. After therapy, each participant was asked to complete a tailored satisfaction survey using Google Forms. The Health Care Satisfaction Questionnaire (HCSQ) and the International Personality Item Pool-Big Five Markers-20 (IPIP-BFM-20) were used as outcome measures. Considering the results of patient satisfaction with healthcare service, there were no statistically significant differences between telerehabilitation and traditional rehabilitation groups in the total HCSQ score and its subscales. For the complete HCSQ, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and extraversion were essential predictor variables, accounting for 51% of the variance in patient satisfaction. In conclusion, there were no differences in patient satisfaction between telerehabilitation and traditional rehabilitation groups. In the telerehabilitation group, higher agreeableness levels and lower conscientiousness and extraversion level could predict patients’ satisfaction with telerehabilitation.

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Current Approaches in Telehealth and Telerehabilitation for Spinal Cord Injury (TeleSCI)

Cited by 14 publications

References 78 publications

Telehealth in PM&R: Past, present, and future in clinical practice and opportunities for translational research

Telehealth in PM&R: Past, present, and future in clinical practice and opportunities for translational research

Patient experiences receiving rehabilitation care via telehealth: Identifying opportunities for remote care

The Impact of Personality Traits on Patient Satisfaction after Telerehabilitation: A Comparative Study of Remote and Face-to-Face Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation during COVID-19 Lockdown

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