RT Book, Section A1 Hall, Courtney D. A1 Meldrum, Dara A1 Whitney, Susan L. A2 Herdman, Susan J. A2 Clendaniel, Richard A. SR Print(0) 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 2024/10/12 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.