RT Book, Section
A1 Hall, Courtney D.
A1 Meldrum, Dara
A1 Whitney, Susan L.
A2 Herdman, Susan J.
A2 Clendaniel, Richard A.
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ID 1135017220
T1 The Role of Emerging Technologies in Vestibular Rehabilitation
T2 Vestibular Rehabilitation
YR 2014
FD 2014
PB F. A. Davis Company
PP New York, NY
SN 9780803639706
LK fadavispt.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1135017220
RD 2024/04/25
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.