Observational studyInternational journal of medical informatics2021
Physiotherapists' perspective of telehealth during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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- Telerehabilitation Trends in Australian Physiotherapy and an Exploration of Factors That Influence Use After COVID-19 Restrictions: Qualitative Content Analysis.JMIR rehabilitation and assistive technologies · 2026Article
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- Patient and clinician perceptions of telehealth in musculoskeletal physiotherapy services - A systematic review of the evidence-base.PLOS digital health · 2025Article
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- Application of digital technology in rehabilitation of total knee arthroplasty: A systematic review.Journal of orthopaedics · 2024Review
- Machine learning for automating subjective clinical assessment of gait impairment in people with acquired brain injury - a comparison of an image extraction and classification system to expert scoring.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2024Article
- From Crisis to Opportunity: A Qualitative Study on Rehabilitation Therapists' Experiences and Post-Pandemic Perspectives.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Physiotherapy students' attitudes toward the use of telehealth in clinical practice: A cross-sectional survey.Health science reports · 2024Article
- Physiotherapists' perceptions, readiness, enablers, and barriers to use telerehabilitation: A scoping review.Journal of back and musculoskeletal rehabilitation · 2024Article
- A New Home-Based Upper- and Lower-Limb Telerehabilitation Platform with Experimental Validation.Arabian journal for science and engineering · 2023Article
- Medical professionals' job satisfaction and telemedicine readiness during the COVID-19 pandemic: solutions to improve medical practice in Egypt.The Journal of the Egyptian Public Health Association · 2023Article
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- Physiotherapists' Perceptions and Willingness to Use Telerehabilitation in Greece: A Cross-Sectional Study.Cureus · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a rapid and expansive roll out of telehealth applications as a mode of intervention delivery. The effectiveness of this model of care is currently unclear.
objectiveA cross-sectional observational study evaluating the Irish physiotherapist's experience of telehealth.
methodIrish Physiotherapists completed an online survey, distributed by the Irish Society of Chartered Physiotherapists (ISCP), exploring considerations and barriers to commencing telehealth, advantages and disadvantages to telehealth, overall experience of telehealth, and their opinion on the future of telehealth. A descriptive approach and conceptual content analysis were used to analysis the data to derive determinants for the continuation of telehealth.
resultsIn total, 205 physiotherapists completed the survey. Seventy-eight per cent were female. Participant's mean age range was 36 to 45 years with 17 years of physiotherapy experience. Eighty-three per cent had no experience with telehealth pre COVID-19. Considerations to commencing telehealth included service user's suitability, adequate technical and organisational resources, physiotherapist's professional conduct, physiotherapist's skills and COVID-19 restrictions. No outstanding barrier to telehealth was identified. Respondents identify that telehealth offered a reduction in travel time for the service user (82%), offer flexibility in the delivery of physiotherapy (81%) and avoid contact with a potential COVID-19 spreader (92%). The limited scope of the physical examination (86%) via telehealth is the significant disadvantage. Telehealth is considered a temporary stop-gap during the COVID-19 pandemic by forty per cent of physiotherapists while sixty per cent consider telehealth as a sustainable alternative mode of health care delivery.
conclusionAt present, health care providers have not universally accepted telehealth as a mode of health care delivery. Our study's findings identify key areas to address to encourage acceptance.
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