Telerehabilitation: Expanding access to rehabilitation expertise

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 89, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1174-1190

  Cooper, Rory A ^a,b,c   Fitzgerald, Shirley G ^a,b,c   Boninger, Michel L ^a,b,c   Brienza, David M ^a,b,c   Shapcott, Nigel ^a,b,c   Cooper, Rosemarie ^a,b,c   Flood, Katherine ^a,b,c  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

R habilitation; Smart technology; Video conferencing

Indexed keywords

EID: 11144281858     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/5.940286     Document Type: Article

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