Telemedicine as a perspective instrument for developing mobile rehabilitation technology (on the example of FNKC RR)

Among the innovative technologies of medical care for citizens with impaired consciousness, a special place is occupied by the technology of mobile rehabilitation service (MRS), with the help of which a wide range of patients are served at home, and their relatives and friends receive extensive counseling. The practice of the Federal State Budgetary Institution “Federal Scientific and Clinical Center for Resuscitation and Rehabilitation” indicates the high efficiency of mobile rehabilitation in this category of patients. Positive experience can be developed, incl. due to the use of telemedicine after completion of the main rehabilitation course. The methodology, in which online sessions and consultations are conducted using video conferencing technology, can significantly increase the territorial coverage of MRS patients, and ensure the continuity of rehabilitation. A special place is given to the interaction of a speech therapist with patients and their relatives, in the framework of which the course of medical and social rehabilitation is continuing. It is stated that the use of telemedicine contributes to the development of remote rehabilitation of handicapped patients with impaired consciousness at home. The accumulated experience allows us to recommend the extensive use of a combination of technologies of MPC and telemedicine, thereby greatly expanding the rehabilitation potential of a significant number of patients at home. It seems expedient to scale up and replicate the experience of MRS FNKC RR within the framework of medical rehabilitation institutions in the country, as well as to raise discussion about the possibilities of expanding the practice of distance counseling and receptions to other stages of mobile rehabilitation.