Browse the latest research summaries in the field of telehealth & digital health for spinal cord injury patients and caregivers.
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2024 • December 18, 2024
This scoping review examined the use of telehealth in arts therapies for neurodevelopmental and neurological disorders (NNDs). It looked at the types of disorders treated, the therapies used, the tech...
KEY FINDING: Telehealth arts therapies show positive outcomes for individuals with NNDs, enhancing accessibility and providing psychological, emotional, social, and cognitive advantages.
BMC Neurology, 2023 • May 26, 2023
Social media offers an excellent opportunity to disseminate knowledge about headache management and treatment. There is a growing mistrust in science which has made dealing with infodemics an increasi...
KEY FINDING: Popular online content on migraine management is often not evidence-based and is disseminated by for-profit organizations.
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2023 • August 1, 2023
This review included 32 studies with 4924 participants to evaluate the efficacy of remotely-delivered psychological interventions for chronic pain in adults. The most common remotely-delivered psychol...
KEY FINDING: Remotely-delivered CBT shows small benefits for pain intensity and functional disability in adults experiencing chronic pain.
Top Spinal Cord Inj Rehabil, 2023 • July 1, 2023
This study assessed the feasibility and acceptability of a codesigned web-based intervention, the SCI Healthcare Transition website, to support young people with SCI transitioning to adult health care...
KEY FINDING: The web-based health care transition intervention was found to be feasible and acceptable among young people with spinal cord injuries, their parents/caregivers, and health care professionals.
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2024 • January 22, 2024
This scoping review provides an overview of digital psychosocial interventions for individuals with SCI, assessing their organization in terms of indication, theory, support, and technology to identif...
KEY FINDING: Digital applications to promote the psychosocial health of individuals with SCI are an emerging field of research with many treatment approaches still to come.
Parkinson’s Disease, 2024 • April 8, 2024
This study assessed the feasibility and safety of home-based titration of levodopa duodenal infusions with the use of self-reported evaluation questionnaires, registration of total time used, and numb...
KEY FINDING: Telehealth-assisted home-based titration programs are feasible due to the length of the titration period, number of contacts, and time spent in PwPs’ private homes.
International Journal of Telerehabilitation, 2023 • March 1, 2023
This study evaluated the efficiency of a novel telerehabilitation service in a provincial health system in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic. The service aimed to provide wayfinding and self-managem...
KEY FINDING: The telerehabilitation service has the potential to positively impact access to rehabilitation during the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly for individuals in rural areas and those on wait lists.
Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, 2023 • April 1, 2023
This study compared synchronous and asynchronous tele-exercise programs for individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI) during the COVID-19 pandemic. The results indicated that synchronous tele-exercise...
KEY FINDING: Weekly mean workload, total workload, adherence and successful exercise recording presented significantly higher values in the synchronous compared to asynchronous tele-exercises.
JMIR Rehabilitation and Assistive Technology, 2023 • June 29, 2023
This scoping review mapped the literature about the telehealth services provided to community-dwelling adults with SCI. The results of this paper also highlighted the importance of telerehabilitation ...
KEY FINDING: Telehealth services are used for managing secondary complications of SCI, including physical activity, chronic pain, pressure ulcers and psychosocial dysfunction.
Trials, 2024 • October 8, 2024
The study is designed as an open-label, parallel-group, two-arm randomised controlled superiority trial (RCT) with 1:1 allocation ratio. Participants will be identified through hospital records or ref...
KEY FINDING: The study aims to evaluate the efficacy of GAIN Lite added to enhanced usual care (EUC) for adults with mild-to-moderate PPCS compared to EUC only.