Received: October 31, 2020. Revised: December 20, 2020. Accepted: January 11, 2021 © The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Physical Therapy Association. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommo ns.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com PTJ: Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Journal | Physical Therapy, 2021;101:1–18 DOI: 10.1093/ptj/pzab053 Advance access publication date February 9, 2021 Review Effectiveness of Telerehabilitation in Physical Therapy: A Rapid Overview Pamela Seron, PT, PhD, MSc 1,* , María-Jose Oliveros, PT, MSc 1 , Ruvistay Gutierrez-Arias, PT, MSc 2 , Rocío Fuentes-Aspe, PT, MSc 1 , Rodrigo C. Torres-Castro, PT, MSc 3 , Catalina Merino-Osorio, PT, MSc 4 , Paula Nahuelhual, PT, MSc 5,6 , Jacqueline Inostroza, PT, MSc 7 , Yorschua Jalil, PT, MSc 8,9 , Ricardo Solano, PT, MSc 10 , Gabriel N. Marzuca-Nassr, PT, PhD 7 , Raul Aguilera-Eguía, PT, MSc 11 , Pamela Lavados-Romo, PT, MSc 12 , Francisco J. Soto-Rodríguez, PT, MSc 13,14 , Cecilia Sabelle, PT, MSc 15,16 , Gregory Villarroel-Silva, PT, MSc 17,18 , Patricio Gomolán, PT, MSc 19 , Sayen Huaiquilaf, PT 20 , Paulina Sanchez, PT 21 1 Internal Medicine Department and CIGES, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco, Chile 2 Instituto Nacional del Tórax and Escuela de Kinesiología, Facultad de Ciencias de la Rehabilitación, Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile 3 Department of Physical Therapy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile 4 Carrera de Kinesiología, Facultad de Medicina, Clínica Alemana- Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago, Chile 5 Departamento de Evaluación de Tecnologías Sanitarias y Salud Basada en Evidencia, Ministerios de Salud, Santiago, Chile 6 Facultad de Medicina, Clínica Alemana de Santiago – Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago, Chile 7 Internal Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco, Chile 8 Escuela de Kinesiología, Facultad de Ciencias de la Rehabilitación, Universidad Andres Bello 9 Programa de Doctorado Ciencias Medicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Escuela de Medicina, Santiago, Chile 10 Medical Specialties Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco, Chile 11 Departamento de Salud Pública and Carrera de Kinesiología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Concepción, Chile 12 Departamento Ciencias Preclínicas, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco, Chile 13 Internal Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de La Frontera 14 Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Carrera de Kinesiología, Universidad Autónoma de Chile, Temuco, Chile 15 Universidad Santo Tomás, Temuco, Chile 16 Servicio de Salud Araucanía Sur, Temuco, Chile 17 Departamento Ciencias de la Salud, Carrera de Kinesiología, Facultad de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile 18 Hospital Josefina Martínez, Santiago, Chile 19 Escuela de Medicina, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Santiago 20 Pediatrics and Child surgery Department, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco, Chile 21 Hospital Dr. Hernán Henríquez Aravena, Temuco, Chile *Address all correspondence to Dr Seron at: pamela.seron@ufrontera.cl Abstract Objective. The purpose of this article was to summarize the available evidence from systematic reviews on telerehabilitation in physical therapy. Methods. We searched Medline/PubMed, EMBASE, and Cochrane Library databases. In addition, the records in PROSPERO and Epistemonikos and PEDro were consulted. Systematic reviews of different conditions, populations, and contexts— where the intervention to be evaluated is telerehabilitation by physical therapy—were included. The outcomes were clinical effectiveness depending on specific condition, functionality, quality of life, satisfaction, adherence, and safety. Data extraction and risk of bias assessment were carried out by a reviewer with non-independent verification by a second reviewer. The findings are reported qualitatively in the tables and figures. Results. Fifty-three systematic reviews were included, of which 17 were assessed as having low risk of bias. Fifteen reviews were on cardiorespiratory rehabilitation, 14 on musculoskeletal conditions, and 13 on neurorehabilitation. The other 11 reviews addressed other types of conditions and rehabilitation. Thirteen reviews evaluated with low risk of bias showed results in Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/ptj/article/101/6/pzab053/6131423 by guest on 28 September 2021