The virtual rehabilitation, the future of "specialty unit"

The virtual rehabilitation, scientific-technological area-ups, treats, even at a distance, or quadriplegic patients with brain injuries, so this field is expected to "revolutionize" the "specialty unit" in the coming years.

This was stated today the president of the Society of the Spanish Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (SERMEF), Inmaculada García, in a press conference following the opening of its 48th national congress, where he noted that virtual rehabilitation "is the present future .

It consists, he said, the use of new graphics technologies, interactive and telecommunications to provide rehabilitation services and tele-rehabilitation more effectively and efficiently.

These new applications allow you to save in times of crisis and the rehabilitation physician has the capacity to treat more people, he said.

Garcia stressed that you can rehabilitate a large number of people through software, even from a distance, avoiding movements, displacement and loss of working hours.

This area combines multidisplicinar technological fields such as virtual reality, medical imaging, bio-electronics, intelligence, environmental or natural interface between man and machine for better therapies for patients and they are also more sustainable for health services.

He stressed that these developments are important in a specialty that deals with life-long address chronic diseases such as musculoskeletal pain, which are the most prevalent, or patients with severe disability, such as quadriplegics or those who suffer brain damage therefore considered that this area could revolutionize the virtual completion neuro-rehabilitation in the coming years.

Source: Notícias EFE

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