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Offering significant benefits to both healthcare providers and patients, telerehabilitation is a key component in the future of rehabilitation care. Telerehabilitation: Principles and Practice provides expert information from experienced practitioners in the field, covering the wide range of patients seen in a rehabilitation medical practice or a hospital-based system. It provides quick access to information on common rehabilitation diagnoses and practices and how you can best use telerehabilitation to provide timely, effective care to every patient. Clearly explains the benefits and utility of telerehabilitation for improving access to care and outcomes for various patient populations. Uses a reader-friendly format based on diagnosis of specific disorders and common problems. Covers telerehabilitation for spinal cord injury, stroke, and cancer rehabilitation. Discusses key topics such as telemedicine for persons with disabilities, telerehabilitation in developing countries, telerehabilitation for integrative health, and mechanisms of telerehabilitation. Explains the nuances of starting a telerehabilitation practice and the associated legislative, revenue, and compliance issues. Features numerous charts, graphs, illustrations, and photographs throughout. Ideal for rehabilitation professionals, physiatrists, and PM&R residents and specialists, as well as physical and occupational therapists. Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.
List of contents
Telerehabilitation: Principles and Practice
Introduction and How to Use this Book
Alexander and Hefner
History of telerehabilitation and the sub-specialties
Hefner and Alexander
Getting Started: Mechanisms of Telerehabilitation
Jaye Hefner, MD
Specific Disorders
Telerehabilitation in Spinal Cord Injury
Marca Alexander, MD
Telerehabilitation in Stroke
Kate Laver, PhD
Telerehabilitation in Brain Injury
Mary Iaccarino, MD
Cancer Telerehabilitation
Andrea Cheville, MD
Telerehabilitation for Amputee Care
David Crandell, MD
Telerehabilitation in Burns
Jeff Schneider, MD
Multiple Sclerosis and Telerehabilitation
Debbie Backus, PhD
Telerehabilitation in ALS
Sabrina Paganoni, MD
Telerehabilitation for Joint Replacements
TBD
Telerehabilitation Subspecialties
Telemedicine for Medical Problems in Persons with Disabilities
Jaye Hefner, MD
Telerehabilitation for Pressure Sores
Ingebjorg Irgens, MD
Telerehabilitation for Pain Management and Opioid Weaning
Marca Alexander, MD
Telerehabilitation for Sports Injuries
Adam Tenforde, MD
Telerehabilitation for Wellness
Elizabeth Frates, MD
Use of Telemedicine in Neuro-urology
Elise De, MD
Telerehabilitation for Neurogenic Sexual Dysfunction
Marcalee Alexander, MD
Telerehabilitation for Speech Therapy
Kerry Davis, SLP
Pediatric Telerehabilitation
Joshua Alexander, MD
Culinary Telemedicine
Rani Polak, MD
Use of Telerehabilitation in Prehabilitation
Julie Silver, MD
Special Topics
Telerehabilitation in Pandemics and Disasters
Jaye Hefner, MD and Marcalee Alexander, MD
Store and Forward Teletherapy
Nishu Tyagi
Reimbursement and Compliance in Telerehabilitation
Chloe Slocum, MD
Legislative Issues in Telemedicine
Chloe Slocum, MD
About the author
Marcalee Alexander, MD is a specialist in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. A graduate of Jefferson Medical College, she is a Past-President of the American SCI Association. In 2019, to motivate rehabilitation professionals and persons with disabilities to take action regarding climate change, she began a walk from Canada to Key West to educate people about disasters, disability and climate change and the need for an accessible, health-promoting environment. In 2020, she paused the walk due to Covid19. Concomitantly, she founded the 501C3 Sustain Our Abilities, whose mission is to educate people about climate change, disability and health. Dr. Alexander also is founding Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Climate Change and Health and is organizing Climate and Health 2023, a hybrid international meeting. Her walk, now named the Graham-Green Route Aiding Health Adaptation will resume 2/24/24 and she has created a Healthy Living Space petition as part of this journey.
