Tools for stroke telerehabilitation occupational therapy: An innovative redesign

Stroke telerehabilitation, an emerging occupational therapy practice area, is effective for improving upper extremity motor function and the performance of ADLs (Cramer et al., 2019; Saragih et al., 2022). An analysis found that a telerehabilitation session required more labor resources than an in-person outpatient rehabilitation session (Morrow et al., 2023) because of increased time needed to document telerehabilitation encounters using traditional processes. This lack of telerehabilitation-specific documentation processes may excessively burden busy clinicians, thereby threatening the successful clinical implementation of telerehabilitation.

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