Remote Balance and Gait Assessment Via Telehealth: Are We Ready for This?

The use of telehealth has grown in the last two decades; however, its “boom” happened during the COVID-19 pandemic. With that, clinicians and researchers shifted their assessments and treatment sessions to telehealth. However, most of these assessments have not been previously investigated to determine whether they were feasible, reliable, and valid to be used via telehealth, especially gait and balance assessments, once they are challenging to administer and perform in older adults and people with neurological disorders. In this chapter, we discussed the use of balance and gait assessments via telehealth and how clinicians and researchers have adapted these assessments to be undertaken remotely. In this in-depth-discussed chapter, we argue whether these assessments are safe to be used remotely, and we, as researchers and clinicians, are ready for this.