Rehab therapy platform WebPT has helped physical therapists across the USA make over 115,000 essential telehealth visits .

The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Phoenix , Arizona .

The co-founder of Web-PT , Doctor Heidi Jannenga , knows how telehealth can provide physical therapists with a better insight into their patients ' lives – especially at the height of the pandemic when an in-person meeting was impossible or too risky .

“ In our state of rehab therapy report , it was about 50 % of therapy professionals using video conferencing or virtual meeting software , and that was really for the first time in 2020 ,” said Jannenga . “ It was an interesting , very difficult change , but we did it .”

With over 100 million people across the world having to manage long COVID , a new era of remote rehabilitation services like WebPT will be vital in helping people live healthy lives in the new normal .

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