Technology has transformed various facets of life, including medicine, giving rise to innovative forms of care such as telemedicine and telehealth. While telehealth encompasses health information available on tech platforms, telemedicine can be defined as ‘the practice of medical consultation between physicians and patients using telecommunication systems over some distance’. Telerehabilitation (TR) is a telemedicine branch involving remote rehabilitation services. TR can refer to any part of rehabilitation services: assessment, diagnosis, treatment, education and follow-up and is provided remotely synchronously or asynchronously via video and/or audio formats and/or texts.

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