Tele-rehabilitation is defined as “the provision of remote rehabilitation services using telecommunications technology”. Such technologies include telephone, virtual reality or video conferencing platforms, or anything related that allows the exchange of information...
Telerehabilitation was first used in 1998. In 2014, the World Federation of Occupational Therapists (WFOT, 2014) identified telerehabilitation as an appropriate method of providing occupational therapy to help clients who were unable to receive occupational therapy...
This review aimed to gather evidence for the use of tele-rehabilitation after stroke. The authors aimed to compare telerehabilitation with therapy delivered face-to-face and with no therapy (usual care). They found that people who received telerehabilitation had...
The purpose of this document is to state the World Federation of Occupational Therapists’ (WFOT) position on the use of telehealth for the delivery of occupational therapy services. Download the PDF here.
