Telehealth Ergonomics for Healthcare Professionals (Jeffs - Online)

Course overview

For years, the American Physical Therapy Association has been telling us as practitioners: Telehealth will not replace traditional clinical care - but it will give flexibility to provide services efficiently. Quicker screening, assessment and referral can improve care coordination within collaborative delivery models. They go on to further admit whats now undeniable: In physical therapy, patients /clients are asking for more time-efficient and less costly care models. Busy lifestyles make it difficult for greater numbers of people to attend traditional BIW / TIW appointments. Applications of telehealth in physical therapy already allows PTs to better communicate with patients / clients and provide more flexible care. These statements were all made prior to the new realities of a post-COVID-19 clinical landscape. Telehealth Ergonomics is a novel approach to computer workstation ergonomic assessment and modification whose time has come, especially with the current pressures made starkly clear by the new COVID-19 reality. This emerging way to work effectively and efficiently will reduce the personal cost of obtaining expert ergonomic assessments and interventions and provide an evidence-based and systematic program of completing ergonomic assessments remotely. It will also offer the scrupulous practitioner a new area of expertise and commerce. It couldnt come at a better time.