Grant recipient: Peter Malliaras FACP, Fellow by Original Contribution  

Project title: The reliability and validity of assessing exercise fidelity using easily accessible telerehabilitation technology 

Year awarded: 2018

Grant: Pat Cosh Trust Grant

Grant amount: $14,653.44

Snapshot: Peter Malliaras, and a team including Terry Haines, Shannon Munteanu and PhD student Fatmah Hasani, were able to investigate the reliability and validity of assessing exercise fidelity using easily accessible telerehabilitation technology. 

The findings: Reliability and validity compared to the gold standard were moderate-to- excellent for all criteria; however, for the smooth and sagittal plane criteria, the inter- and intra-rated reliability were lower than some of the other criteria.

Benefits to the profession: To encourage clinicians to be confident in using telerehabilitation for the assessment and management of patients with Achilles tendinopathy, that is, where the physiotherapist and the patient can be anywhere at any time and they can remotely connect via teleconferencing technology.

The next steps:  In the future, Peter aims to expand what we know now about valid and reliable telerehab measures in the ankle to other joints, for example, looking at shoulder assessment via telerehabilitation.

Read more about Peter’s study in InMotion.