Web workout videos boost physiotherapy

By The Newsroom
Published 8th Sep 2016, 12:26 BST
Updated 12th Sep 2016, 16:59 BST
Physiotherapists Nicola Hardie (left) and Stephanie Chillingworth showing the rehab videos on tablets.Physiotherapists Nicola Hardie (left) and Stephanie Chillingworth showing the rehab videos on tablets.
Physiotherapists Nicola Hardie (left) and Stephanie Chillingworth showing the rehab videos on tablets.
Physiotherapists are swapping long journeys on rural roads for the speed of the information superhighway by treating patients using online videos.

NHS Lanarkshire is introducing a new digital rehabilitation programme, featuring individualised ‘workout videos’ on the web.

A recent pilot of the system in Lanarkshire cut travel time for community physiotherapists and let them spend much more of their working day assessing patients.

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The initiative also benefits those who are receiving physio, according to NHS Lanarkshire head of physiotherapy services Janie Thomson.

She said: “The programme is remotely managed from community hospitals, reducing travel for physiotherapists, often to rural locations.