title: Tele-rehabilitation: present and future.
abstract: During the last decade we assisted to relevant progress in rehabilitation studies and in technological development. From the combination of these issues rises the tele-rehabilitation--a subfield of telemedicine consisting of a system to control rehabilitation "at distance"--as an actual possibility of application and a promising development in the future. The present paper offers a short review of the state of the art in the field of tele-rehabilitation, with a special focus on upper limb tele-rehabilitation. The experience is also briefly reported of the preliminary application of the H-CAD (home care activity desk) system and the HELLODOC (Healthcare service linking tele-rehabilitation to disabled people and clinicians) tele-rehabilitation service, conducted by the authors within two European projects in the period 2003-2005 and 2005-2007 respectively.
authors.affiliation: ASL n 3, Umbria, Unità Organica di Riabilitazione Intensiva Neuromotoria, Trevi, Perugia, Italy. m.zampolini@asl3.umbria.it
authors.forename: Mauro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zampolini
authors.forename: Elisabetta
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Todeschini
authors.forename: Montserrat
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bernabeu Guitart
authors.forename: Hermie
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hermens
authors.forename: Stephan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ilsbroukx
authors.forename: Velio
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Macellari
authors.forename: Riccardo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Magni
authors.forename: Marco
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rogante
authors.forename: Sandro
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Scattareggia Marchese
authors.forename: Miriam
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Vollenbroek
authors.forename: Claudia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Giacomozzi
mesh_terms: D005062:European Union; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D012046:Rehabilitation / Q000266:history* / Q000639:trends*; D012371:Robotics; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000266:history* / Q000639:trends*