Peer Review of “Telerehabilitation for People With Physical Disabilities and Movement Impairment: A Survey of United Kingdom Practitioners”

Maria Stella Stein

doi:10.2196/35853

Abstract

Peer Review of “Telerehabilitation for People With Physical Disabilities and Movement Impairment: A Survey of United Kingdom Practitioners”

Highlights

There is a reasonable introduction that could be further supported with actual figures
How common are the physical disabilities being referred to? Include an operational definition of physical disabilities. This would normally include motor impairment, so why does the paper refer to physical disabilities and movement impairment
Second paragraph: this sentence does not read well or make sense on its own: “To maximise accuracy and completeness of data, formatting and compulsory items [8] were used in the questionnaire design.”

Summary

Introduction

There is a reasonable introduction that could be further supported with actual figures. Include an operational definition of physical disabilities. How common are the physical disabilities being referred to? This would normally include motor impairment, so why does the paper refer to physical disabilities and movement impairment. I think this needs clarification supported by the literature. It would strengthen the rationale for the study if slightly more context were provided for key studies cited [2,3,4,5,6,7]

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