Telehealth or Telephysical Therapy or TelePT

The US Department of Health and Human Services defines telehealth as:
"the use of electronic information and telecommunications technologies to support long-distance clinical health care, patient and professional health-related education, public health and health administration." I don't think the terms Telephysical Therapy or TelePT really exist until now (somebody make a note that I coined the phrase April '09) but they would be the use of electronic information and telecommunications technologies to support long-distance clinical physical therapy care and patient and professional physical therapy-related education. I have always thought that telehealth brings some great advantages to people who are long distance from health care. I had my doubts about how this might work for physical therapy but a couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to find out using my family as guinea pigs. My wife's brother-in-law lives 1200 miles from us. He recently called inquiring about some pain he was having in his mid-back. We spoke over the phone where I took a general medical history and inquired about his pain. As he was explaining his ailments to me, I quickly realized that he had a rib dysfunction that I could easily treat using a manual technique. If we had lived in the same city I would have had him come over to my house and treat him. Since I have a Mac and ichat, I was able to talk and see him as he described and pointed to his pain. I was able to watch him move and I even taught his wife to provide a manual technique which two weeks later has still abolished his pain.
I am a true believer. There are many people around the world that do not have access to healthcare that can be successfully treated long distance through the use of telehealth and telePT. What do you think?