A number of exciting projects are underway within the Telerehabilitation Research Unit, covering a wide variety of disciplines.
To enquire, please contact the Centre for Research in Telerehabilitation.
Speech Pathology
- Home-based speech treatment for Parkinson's Disease via telerehabilitation: Clinial and economic outcomes.
- Use of innovative mobile telehealth technology to enable a new service delivery solution for dysphagia management.
- Establishing a telehealth service within the Speech Pathology Department of the Royal Brisbane & Womens Hospital.
- Development and evaluation of digital therapy smartphone applications for use in the telerehabilitation of communication disorders.
- Be Clear Online: An intensive speech treatment for non-progressive dysarthria delivered via telepractice
- The development, feasibility and effectiveness of an online aphasia group intervention – TeleGAIN
- The assessment and management of emotional literacy in children with language impairment via telepractice
- The assessment and management of cognitive-communication impairment in Parkinson’s disease via telepractice
- Dysphagia (adult / paediatric) assessment (clinical / instrumental) via telepractice
- Dysphagia management using supported technology
- Technology assisted screening for determining allied health support needs for patients with Head and Neck cancer
- Enhancing Post Discharge Care for patient with Head and Neck Cancer via telepractice
- Using telepractice to identify and support carer needs
- Clinician perceptions of telepractice services
- Patient perceptions and readiness for telepractice services
- Implementation of telepractice services: Determining core versus adaptable technology components for specific services
- Determining suitability for telepractice in international contexts
- Telepractice Training and Policy
Physiotherapy
- Understanding consumer factors in the uptake of telerehabilitation services
- Group based Telerehabilitation of patients with heart failure in the home
- Home based Telerehabilitation for patient post Total Hip Arthroplasty
- Telerehabilitatoin in the Neurosurgical and Orthopaedic Physiotherapy Screening Clinic and Multidisciplinary Services (N/OPSC & MDS)
- Remote monitoring, telerehabilitation and serious games for the rehabilitation and management of respiratory conditions
- Telerehabilitation education and training
Occupational Therapy
- Can occupational therapy home visits be conducted using the internet?
- The internet can be used to measure upper limb range of motion in people who have had a stroke
- Using the internet to assess ADL and hand function in people with Parkinson’s disease
- An investigation into outpatient allied health therapy services for people with a neurological condition in rural and remote Queensland
- Conducting home and school visits via the internet for children undergoing rehabilitation: a feasibility and reliability study of telerehabilitation.
Multidisciplinary projects
- The internet can be used to measure upper limb range of motion in people who have had a stroke - Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy
- Using the internet to assess ADL and hand function in people with Parkinson’s disease - Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy.
- An investigation into outpatient allied health therapy services for people with a neurological condition in rural and remote Queensland - Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy.
- Internet-based physical assessment of people with Parkinson’s disease is accurate and reliable -Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy.
- Internet-based multidisciplinary assessment of patients following Traumatic Brain Injury - Physiotherapy and Speech Pathology.
- A telehealth framework for Bush Kids: Needs analysis, proof of concept, and implementation
- Predictors of home telehealth adoption in the aging population: Consumer perspectives