Telehealth in Physical Therapy

This article is a literature review of Telehealth in Physical Therapy. It discusses the growing role of Telehealth in Physical Therapy practices like evaluation, exercise instruction, and progress monitoring. The multiple advantages of telehealth like cost-effectiveness, accessibility, continued care, time efficiency, patient satisfaction and similar outcome as conventional therapy are discussed in detail. It also cites the disadvantages of using Telehealth like legal issues, licensure regulation, cyber security, insurance coverage and lack of hands-on therapy. Finally, the article discusses the future of telehealth, highlighting new technologies like robotics, virtual and augmented reality that may overcome the current limitations and help integrate telerehabilitation into mainstream physical therapy.