Sanjeev Gupta
Banarsidas Chandiwala Institute of Physiotherapy, India
Title: Role of tele-physiotherapy in managing contemporary challenges to neurorehab- An Indian perspective
Biography
Biography: Sanjeev Gupta
Abstract
This presentation starts with an introduction to Indian context and neurorehab. The presentation unveils the scope and potential of tele-physiotherapy in the different domains of physiotherapy and neurorehab. From a possible provision to address a forbidden remote client tele-physiotherapy now has emerged as a tall solution for growing challenges of urban especially metropolitan lives. The presentation shall look into the scope of tele-physiotherapy and explore its inevitable acceptance and possibilities in urban culture. Tele-physiotherapy surely fixes many issues with its ubiquitous and ambient nature. With growing popularity of wearable and virtual gears artificial intelligence can be the key to our many issues and challenges. Another very important collateral benefit of tele-physiotherapy is spontaneous, simultaneous and effortless recording of data and information pertaining to therapist–patient interaction during therapy. This would offer great help in medico-legal situations, big data analysis, drawing trends etc. This can be a strong tool for insurance companies to gauge client participation and adherence to regime that affects their policy cost and claims as a direct implication. Advantages of internet of things (IoT), GPS and social media can be tapped for group participation, real time motivation and inspirational updates. The presentation discusses scope of Telemedicine, IoT, Big Data Analysis (BDA), ICT and Ambient Intelligence (AI) etc. Further portion unfolds opportunities to collaborate with mobile apps developers, gaming giants and notifications agencies etc. to incorporate physiotherapy features such that they become more yielding. Finally it puts light on challenges to application of tele-physiotherapy in Indian context. The presentation shall include clinical opinion based on a ground study highlighting present preparedness of all stakeholders, with reasons vested therein.