Perspectives on the evolution of mobile (mHealth) technologies and application to rehabilitation

Physical Therapy

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 397-405

  Dicianno, Brad E ^a,b   Parmanto, Bambang ^c   Fairman, Andrea D ^c,d   Crytzer, Theresa M ^c   Yu, Daihua X ^c   Pramana, Gede ^c   Coughenour, Derek ^a   Petrazzi, Alan A ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Department of Neurology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^d DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVICES; HUMAN; MOBILE APPLICATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PHYSIOTHERAPY; RECREATION; REHABILITATION MEDICINE; TELEMEDICINE;

HUMANS; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; PHYSICAL AND REHABILITATION MEDICINE; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; TELEMEDICINE; VIDEO GAMES;

EID: 84924258853     PISSN: 00319023     EISSN: 15386724     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2522/ptj.20130534     Document Type: Article

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