TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - The Role of Emerging Technologies in Vestibular Rehabilitation A1 - Hall, Courtney D. A1 - Meldrum, Dara A1 - Whitney, Susan L. A2 - Herdman, Susan J. A2 - Clendaniel, Richard A. PY - 2014 T2 - Vestibular Rehabilitation AB - It is an exciting time in rehabilitation. In the past decade, there has been a proliferation of novel technologies designed to enhance rehabilitation outcomes. Virtual reality is one of those emerging technologies that has been applied to a variety of medical purposes including medical education and training, primary care, psychiatry, surgery, radiology, and more recently, rehabilitation. There is considerable excitement surrounding virtual reality across a multidisciplinary group of scientists and clinicians who are developing this new technology for physical, psychological, cognitive, and social rehabilitation purposes. Telehealth, the delivery of health-care services at a distance, has emerged as a significant component of the health-care delivery system with the advent of high-speed, high-bandwidth telecommunication networks. The combination of virtual reality with telerehabilitation holds great promise in increasing our ability to work with patients at a distance, offering greater access to care for rural patients. Although telerehabilitation incorporating virtual reality to train balance in patients following a stroke has been recently tested with good outcomes,1 there have been no studies to date that have validated the use of telerehabilitation for patients with vestibular disorders. SN - PB - F. A. Davis Company CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/10/09 UR - fadavispt.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1135017220 ER -