Management of Patients with Chronic Diseases with Virtual Rehabilitation, Telerehabilitation and Remote Monitoring

Dear Colleagues,

Remote monitoring of physical exercise through telecommunications technologies is increasingly available and reliable in the rehabilitation and prevention of public health. Remote monitoring of physical exercise provides an opportunity to deliver medical and preventive care in alternative methods, affecting barriers to utilization and improving access to quality rehabilitation services. Recently, due to the pandemic situation, the focus has shifted towards unsupervised or AI-supervised training programs. Thus, also opening up possibilities for the use of virtual reality (VR) for patients with internal disease. This technology continues to develop rapidly and gain a growing number of enthusiasts in different age categories. It is most often associated with entertainment, but it applies much more widely in other fields. The literature contains publications describing the possibility of using VR as a diagnostic and therapeutic tool. The majority of the research on virtual rehabilitation focuses on neurorehabilitation. However, interest in this technology increases and extends to cardiac, pediatric, oncology, as well as pulmonary rehabilitation. Moreover, it has been shown that the use of virtual reality in the rehabilitation process changes patient engagement in therapy. This component seems to be crucial in the case of chronic patients.

This Special Issue is essential to summarize the current remote monitoring of physical exercise and telerehabilitation services and clarify the challenges and obstacles in this research area, likewise to present recent reports in the area of implementation of virtual rehabilitation in patients with internal diseases. Recent advances in technologies and new clinical applications provide an additional need to summarize and continue developing the existing literature in the field. It is recommended to send contributions presenting original research results, review papers, or innovative proof of concepts to remote telemonitoring of physical exercise, telerehabilitation, and virtual rehabilitation services in patients treated for chronic diseases and disabilities. Therefore, we will be looking for high-quality research in the areas of virtual reality rehabilitation, telerehabilitation, and remote exercise monitoring in patients treated for chronic diseases.

Dr. Sebastian Rutkowski
Dr. Ladislav Batalik
Guest Editors

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