Year: 2023 | Month: November | Volume: 13 | Issue: 11 | Pages: 148-155
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijhsr.20231118
Facilitators and Barriers for Telerehabilitation in Children and Adolescents with and without Impairment – A Scoping Review
Pallavi Wakode1, Faaiza Gawankar2
1Associate Professor, Smt. Kashibai Navale College of Physiotherapy, Pune, India
2Intern, Smt. Kashibai Navale College of Physiotherapy, Pune, India
Corresponding Author: Pallavi Wakode
ABSTRACT
With the means of telerehabilitation, evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of patients in faraway places has become easier with the use of telecommunications networks. Telerehabilitation is a sub-branch of telemedicine which includes remote management and rehabilitation using new telecommunication network. We Identified studies published between 2015 to 2023 for the scoping review. Databases selected were Pubmed, Embase, Web of Science, Science Direct and Scopus. The data was extracted from the selected articles and was presented in Microsoft excel. Several benefits of telerehabilitation were reported such as increased accessibility to the services available, with increased flexibility in scheduling. It was also found to be cost effective, along with reducing the commute time to almost zero. Conversely, limitations to telerehabilitation that came to light were that access to internet and device access was not as attainable was thought, along with few cultural considerations.
Key words: “Telerehabilitation” or “Telemedicine” or “Telehealth” & Children or “Adolescents” or “School going Children”