The 2011 World Report on Disability of the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that more than a billion people worldwide—about 15% of the 2010 global population—experience some form of disability (1). In 2019, a study estimated that more than 2.4 billion people globally are affected by conditions that could benefit from rehabilitation (2). These numbers have only been growing due to population ageing and increase in the prevalence of non-communicable diseases (1, 3). Chronic diseases are estimated to account for 66.5% of all years lived with disability (4). Altogether, these projections are likely to increase the socio-economic burden of diseases requiring rehabilitation, including costs on healthcare systems already under tremendous financial pressure.