Cross-Cutting

Clinical Practice (assessment, diagnosis, treatment, knowledge translation/EBP, implementation science, program development)

Symposium

(639416) Making Decisions Without Your Hands: Evidence-Based Clinical Reasoning in Telerehabilitation

Presenter(s)

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  Ellen Morello, PT, DPT

  Senior Clinical Program Manager
  Physera
  Beverly, Massachusetts
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  Todd Norwood, PT, DPT, OCS, SCS

  Director of Clinical Services
  Physera
  Redwood City, California
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  Sarah Niswonger, MS, OTR/L

  Occupational Therapist
  Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford
  Sunnyvale, California

Telehealth is changing service delivery in the field of rehabilitation and improving access to care for a variety of patient populations. In order to deliver care in the virtual world, various regulatory policies and clinical best practices must be understood. Decision making processes based on patient presentation, condition, and evidence-based screening tools will be described. Presenters will describe some of the challenges they faced, and ultimately overcame, as well as clinical pearls garnered from years of practice providing telerehabilitation services. Attendees will learn how to use the evidence to aid in clinical decision making in telerehabilitation across various patient populations.

Learning Objectives:

• Demonstrate understanding of terminology and regulations for practicing Telerehabilitation
• Demonstrate understanding of clinical uses and screening for Telerehabilitation
• Apply evidence to improve clinical decision making in a Telerehabiltiation setting
• Describe the different modes of delivering telehealth
• Describe the range of patient populations and use cases for telehealth interventions