Medical rehabilitation of people with disabilities is an extremely important set of measures. Without it, it is quite difficult to count on improving the general condition of a patient with a disability group.
About medical rehabilitation
It is a fairly extensive set of measures aimed at reducing the severity of disabilities in patients with a disabling pathology. Currently, according to the protocols of the Ministry of Health, each person sent to a medical rehabilitation expert commission must first visit a particular center where they can help him improve his general condition.
Currently, medical rehabilitation is very, very diverse. The volume of necessary measures is fully determined by what kind of pathology a person has. As a result, medical rehabilitation can take months, and sometimes years. In other cases, a few weeks is enough.
Where can I get rehabilitation?
Today, there are a huge number of medical centers offering such services. Moreover, among them there are both state and private institutions. Naturally, in the first case, the patient will not have to pay for his stay, and secondly, it will be necessary to spend some money.
Medical rehabilitation of disabled people in public institutions is carried out in the direction of the patient’s attending physician. So first of all, a person should contact his doctor if he wants to take a rehabilitation course. As for private medical centers, nobody needs a referral to go there. A person comes, he is examined by specialists of a paid clinic and determine what kind of medical rehabilitation should be.
General and specialized events
Currently, there are both specialized methods and general methods of medical rehabilitation. The first is the help that is provided in specialized rehabilitation centers. Experienced rehabilitologists work with patients there. This type of event also includes all types of prosthetics. Naturally, various kinds of operations aimed at eliminating one or another pathological process also belong to specialized rehabilitation measures.
As for the general methods of recovery, this can include daily outpatient treatment by taking the medications prescribed by your doctor. Being in a non-specialized therapeutic or surgical department is also a general rehabilitation.
About individual rehabilitation programs
Currently, before sending the patient to rehabilitation activities, special programs are being created that regulate the passage of all the individual stages of rehabilitation therapy. To date, most often the rehabilitation program is the attending doctor of the patient. In addition to it, rehabilitation doctors can form it. It displays information about:
- passport data of the patient;
- its functional condition ;
- reasons for referral for rehabilitation;
- ongoing outpatient treatment;
- about his passing "health schools".
In the event that the rehabilitation has not been completed in full, the individual program indicates the reason that prevented its implementation.
Who to contact?
Most often, the treating doctor offers the patient general or special rehabilitation measures immediately after a person has a high risk of disability due to the presence of a disease. If, for some reason, the proposal has not been received, the patient should contact his or her attending physician regarding referral to rehabilitation measures independently. If this is not possible, then you can visit the deputy chief physician for medical examination and rehabilitation.
If the patient is ready to undergo rehabilitation measures on a paid basis, he can contact any private specialized institution.
Why is rehabilitation necessary?
Many patients do not understand why they need to be sent for specialized events. This is due to a lack of understanding of the importance of rehabilitation therapy and its influence on the quality of later life. The fact is that medical rehabilitation of patients is carried out in order to reduce the severity of the patient’s disability. As a result, the patient regains the ability to lead a normal life, while remaining a full member of society.
It should also be noted that medical rehabilitation of people with disabilities can slow the progression of dangerous chronic diseases. As a result, the patient has the opportunity to lead a full active life much longer.
In many cases, with the help of medical rehabilitation, a person almost completely restores their social activity.
About prosthetics
One of the varieties of specialized rehabilitation measures is prosthetics. Modern techniques can fully restore the level of functioning of damaged parts of the body. Especially great successes have been achieved in the field of prosthetics of joints. There are many companies that develop prostheses of both upper and lower limbs. Every year, achievements in this area are increasingly significant.
About new trends
Modern medical rehabilitation is restorative medicine of the highest level. Currently, many public and private companies are working to improve the technical potential in this area. One of the most modern innovations was the development of special high-tech biomechanical threads that can conduct nerve impulses. Today, this innovation is gradually being introduced into the medical field to treat patients with serious spinal cord injuries. It is possible that very soon such people will be able to once again lead a full-fledged lifestyle.
Disabled person as a full member of society
Currently, most countries of the world are trying to ensure that people with disabilities can take their rightful place in society. For this, social and medical rehabilitation is often carried out. It differs from ordinary recovery measures in that it also includes the employment of the patient. This also includes the provision of training for a disabled person to obtain new professional knowledge.
The modern organization of medical rehabilitation always implies the desire for the disabled person to be able to continue working, even if he has quite serious disabilities. As a result, the activities associated with computers become the most common area of work for such patients. The fact is that it does not mean serious physical exertion.
Deaf-mute people are quite easily employed in industries related, for example, to the manufacture of corks or the processing of plastics. The fact is that such enterprises are always very noisy. It is problematic and harmful for a person with normal hearing to work in these conditions.
About children
Medical rehabilitation of children is carried out on the basis of specialized pediatric centers. The most experienced specialists in the field of rehabilitation therapy work with small patients there. The need for this is due to the fact that the children's body is special. At the same time, his recovery capabilities are significantly higher than that of an adult. As a result, if a child has a disabling disease, medical rehabilitation should be carried out as soon as possible.
About sport
Achieving high performance in the sports field is often associated with serious health risks. When a person speaks to the limit of his abilities, the risk of injury is extremely high. As a result, many athletes sooner or later end up in a hospital bed. Naturally, most of them want to return to training and again try to achieve success in their field. In this they are helped by medical and sports rehabilitation. It is carried out on the basis of the most modern and well-equipped centers. As a result, most patients, even after serious injuries, manage to return to training, and sometimes even achieve greater success than before rehabilitation measures.
What is a medical rehabilitation center?
Now such institutions are not uncommon. Rehabilitation therapists work in them. Doctors in this profile specialize in using modern techniques to restore patient health.
Any hospital for medical rehabilitation has serious equipment. There, without fail, there is an office equipped with modern simulators. In addition, each rehabilitation center is equipped with high-quality physiotherapy equipment. It is necessary for the speedy restoration of the patient’s health. Naturally, there are specialized training simulators for patients in rehabilitation centers who are trying to regain their ability to move normally.
Economic effect for society
Invalidation of the population is a rather big problem for modern society. The fact is that people with disabilities for the most part fall out of the state’s labor resources . Also, so that they can live with dignity, society supports them from an economic point of view. As a result, lost profits and subsidies for the disabled, as their numbers increase, become a rather serious problem even for fairly wealthy states. Medical rehabilitation of patients with those diseases that can be compensated either by staying in a specialized center, or with the help of complex technical devices, is called upon to solve it at least partially now.
Even if 1 out of 10 disabled people after carrying out rehabilitation measures manages to return to work, then this will already be a good enough achievement. Thanks to this, the company will be able to save a considerable amount of money and direct them to solving other problems.
What does rehabilitation consist of?
Currently, several aspects are immediately identified that make up rehabilitation. First of all, this, of course, is the medical aspect. It is expressed in the use of certain drugs to compensate for the patient. The next aspect is the physical. We are talking about the use of physiotherapeutic techniques to restore the patient’s health.
The most important aspect is the mental. It is expressed in the use of psychotherapeutic influence so that the patient does not get hung up on his illness and the resulting limitations of his life. The professional aspect includes everything related to employment. For those patients who are still working at the time of rehabilitation, but who have a high risk of disability, it will consist of applying modern rehabilitation techniques to improve the condition and compensate for the existing disease. As for those patients who already have an established disability, then all the efforts of doctors will be aimed at restoring their disability.
The social aspect is very important. It regulates the relationship between people with disabilities with society. This also includes questions of pensions and benefits of a different kind. The economic aspect determines how beneficial from a material point of view is medical rehabilitation in each case. The fact is that even quite expensive events are fully compensated if the disabled person regained his ability to work. Only given all these aspects can one understand how useful rehabilitation is.