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https://doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2020.1085
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Model of telerehabilitation for people with breast cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic in Chile

5 Aug 2020
Williams Mella-Abarca, Valentina Barraza-Sánchez, Karol Ramírez-Parada

Adapting face-to-face physical therapy consultations in cancer care to a model of telerehabilitation has been necessary, given the imminent spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this respect, the current model of telerehabilitation for people with breast cancer can be described as a method of continuing physical therapy treatment, in a public hospital with limited resources.

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