On arthritic knees and the hope of telerehabilitation

OK so there are days when I start wondering how many years I am going to spend crawling around on the floor with children.  Sometimes I just wonder how many miles are meant to be crawled in a lifetime.  This leads to thoughts about how appealing academia might be where I can spend a greater amount of my time sitting instead of running/hopping/crawling/etc.The concept of telerehabilitation appeals to me - instead of/in addition to academia maybe a career in telerehabilitation is another option for my decrepit knees?  I have no inherent bias against telerehabilitation; in fact, I kind of think it would be great to find out that some types of OT treatment could be effectively delivered in a distance format.Our regulatory system is miles behind the telerehabilitation movement.  I attended a well publicized telerehab 'continuing ed' seminar recently and hoped to have some questions about regulations answered, but they really didn't have any.  I have 'continuing ed' in quotes because I am not sure if it was continuing ed as much as it was a cheerleading session and maybe a marketing ploy.  I noticed that a press release announcing OT being added to the company's telerehab services came out the day after the webinar.  Apparently this company is providing 'online OT' within the context of 'online charter schools.'  That hardly represents a standard context so I don't really even think that there is a lot of 'telerehabilitation' happening i...
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