Artículo
Effectiveness of a telerehabilitation tablet app in combination with face-to-face physiotherapy for people with wrist, hand or finger injuries: a pragmatic multicentre clinical trial
Autor/es | Suero-Pineda, Alejandro
Oliva Pascual-Vaca, Ángel Rodríguez- Piñero Durán, Manuel Rodriguez Sanchez-Laulhe, Pablo García-Frasquet, M. Á. Blanquero, Jesús |
Departamento | Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Fisioterapia |
Fecha de publicación | 2023 |
Fecha de depósito | 2024-09-06 |
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Resumen | Objective: To evaluate whether, in patients with trauma and soft tissue injuries of the wrist, hand and/or fingers, an exercise program performed on a touchscreen tablet-based app reduces the consumption of face-to-face ... Objective: To evaluate whether, in patients with trauma and soft tissue injuries of the wrist, hand and/or fingers, an exercise program performed on a touchscreen tablet-based app reduces the consumption of face-to-face resources and improves clinical recovery, compared to a conventional home exercise program prescribed on paper. Design: Pragmatic, multicentre, parallel, two-group, controlled clinical trial with blinded assessor. Participants and setting: Eighty-one patients with traumatic bone and/or soft tissue injuries of the hand, wrist and/or fingers recruited in four hospitals of the Andalusian Public Health System. Interventions: The experimental group received a home exercise program using a touchscreen tablet application and the control group received a home exercise program on paper. Both groups received the same treatment of face-to-face physiotherapy. Primary outcome: Number of physiotherapy sessions. Secondary outcomes were the duration of physiotherapy and clinical variables such as functional ability, grip strength, pain and manual dexterity. Results: The experimental group required fewer physiotherapy sessions (MD -11,5 sessions; 95% CI -21.4 to -1.4), showed a shorter duration of physiotherapy (MD -3.8 weeks, 95% CI -7 to -1) and had better recovery of grip strength, pain and dexterity compared to the control group. Conclusions: In patients with trauma and soft tissue injuries of the wrist, hand and/or fingers, an exercise program performed on a touchscreen tablet-based app in combination with face-to-face physiotherapy reduces the consumption of face-to-face resources and improves clinical recovery, compared to conventional home exercise program prescribed on paper. |
Agencias financiadoras | Hospital Universitario Virgen Macarena |
Cita | Suero-Pineda, A., Oliva Pascual-Vaca, Á., Rodríguez- Piñero Durán, M., Rodriguez Sanchez-Laulhe, P., García-Frasquet, M.Á. y Blanquero, J. (2023). Effectiveness of a telerehabilitation tablet app in combination with face-to-face physiotherapy for people with wrist, hand or finger injuries: a pragmatic multicentre clinical trial. Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare. https://doi.org/10.1177/1357633X231172245. |
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