Sally had neck pain for 2 months, but with her busy schedule as a corporate executive and mom to two small children, she had no time for herself. A co-worker told her about Virtual Physical Therapists, so at lunch time she downloaded the app and was connected to a specialized physical therapist with a certification…
Florida: SB 280: Prefiled Encourages the state group health insurance program to offer health insurance plans that include telehealth coverage for state employees, authorizes the Agency for Health Care Administration to pay for certain telehealth services as optional Medicaid services, and establishes practice standards of care for telehealth providers, among other components. California: AB 205 :On Governor’s…
As early as 3000 BC, the first writings about how exercise could relieve pain came from China.1 “Researchers have found evidence of the application of heat, cold, water, exercise, massage and sunlight to abate physical afflictions…even during prehistoric times.” (1) Physical therapy (PT) had its emergence in the US around 1916, due to the Polio…
Telemedicine is a hot topic in the news of late. I am receiving a lot of inquires asking the specifics, so I put together a quick reference article, reviewing the questions that I often receive. Telemedicine and Telehealth are two words that overlapped all the time. Telemedicine is the remote diagnosis and treatment of patients…
