Telerehabilitation: toward a cost-efficient platform for post-stroke neurorehabilitation

Motor deficits in the growing population of stroke survivors continue to strain global healthcare capacities. The use of telerehabilitation to address this need has been discussed for over a decade without a clear consensus on development strategy or a clear market success. In this paper, the cyclic and iterative phases of the Planning, Execution, Assessment (PLEXAS) rehabilitation cycle are discussed, and the potential roles of an integrated telerehabilitation platform within this cycle are presented. Some preliminary work on a multicenter project called TeleREHA is presented along with relevant clinical insight and discussion.