Rehabilitation and physiotherapy services can be crucial in maintaining quality of life, especially as people age, but many in rural Manitoba have had little to no access to those services.

Now regular and essential physio and rehab services are being offered to people in Pinaymootang First Nation and Lake Manitoba First Nation through the help of a videoconferencing robot, while the physiotherapist remains in another city.

Clinton Anderson from Pinaymootang First Nation is seeing the benefits of…