REMOTE REHABILITATION: ROLE AND OPPORTUNITIES

Medical rehabilitation is a complex, long-term and financially costly process of restoring the physiological functions of the body after injuries and the consequences of past diseases. The need for an individual approach to each life situation necessitates the search and development of new technologies in the method of providing rehabilitation assistance. One of the principles of a successful rehabilitation process is continuity, which, in most cases, is disrupted after the transfer of patients to the outpatient stage. The 21st century, in contrast to the previous one, is distinguished by more accessible technologies for everyday and individual use. A separate category of patients are patients with the consequences of brain damage, socialization and the return of the ability to self-serve for whom is one of the most difficult in rehabilitation practice. One of these technologies is distance rehabilitation, which provides the principle of continuity, social and informational support for relatives who provide care for patients on an outpatient basis.