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| Kate Allatt A Rocky Stroke Recovery |
According to Wikipedia:‘Telehealth is the delivery of health-related services and information via telecommunications technologies.
Telehealth could be as simple as two health professionals discussing a case over the telephone or as sophisticated as doing robotic surgery between facilities at different ends of the globe.’
Telehealth:
- Could be Preventative – with strokes affect 1 in 6 people every year this is already v important, not least from a well being & economic cost point of view.
- Could be Promotive – could promote patient progress improvement otherwise known as stroke recovery
- Could be Curative – this is vital from a patient point if view with so many having strokes so young! I was 39, and old by some standards, but I have a career now and an earnings ability ahead of me. That means, I’ll be contributing to the economy!
- Is widely accepted, that we have long known that we must take a MDT (multi disciplinary team) approach stroke recovery.
How? They would all be able to chat more so that they can improve patient functionality, (without the need to physically meet), thereby improve the well-being (or quality of life) of the stroke survivor, including locked in syndrome sufferers.
Clinicians would be able to take patient a far more joined up approach to stroke rehabilitation in the acute and community settings.
- Telehealth would mean the MDT work is far more timely after the initial stroke, and we all know early intervention is key!
- Telehealth could be used to motivate patients to do more rehabilitation exercises at home. We know it’s all about repetitive, frequent & intensive exercises post stroke now. As I did with my obsessive ‘willing’ of my 1st book (non-clinical talk). This is in stark contrast to the ‘task related’ actions like getting dressed, making a cup of tea or making a bed, from previous stroke recovery practise.
- Telehealth can be used to chart the progress improvement a patient makes, which itself can be motivating for the patient. Therefore, treatment can be more goal-centred.
- Telehealth can be linked to social media. Essentially online support groups like my own Fighting Strokes page on Facebook – closed or open – which can be accessed after a stroke, to help with the devastating ‘hidden sides’ of stroke. My only caveat to this is that telehealth must not entirely replace patient to therapist or patient to patient face to face contact.
Please feel free to comment or feel free to book me to speak about what I’ve said on this – Kate’s speaker site as I’ve worked this all out all by myself!!! :-)Notes:
Kate Allatt founded her internet-based charity Fighting Strokes Facebook page and is the author of the internationally published Running Free and Gonna Fly Now! Amazon/kindle/Nook
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