Rehabilitation services are all medical services that serve to avert, eliminate, reduce, or compensate for a disability or need for care to prevent its worsening or to mitigate its consequences. Rehabilitation and preventive services can be provided on an outpatient or inpatient basis.

The goal of rehabilitation

To get through your everyday life – the patient’s participation, which is threatened or impaired for health reasons, should be restored, improved, or prevented from deteriorating through rehabilitation medical care. The measures help restore performance. The spectrum ranges from massages and therapeutic baths to targeted physiotherapy or occupational therapy to psychotherapeutic discussions. Even with an illness, prevention is now part of the treatment concept. In addition to early and regular medical treatment, a targeted diet or, for example, individually tailored exercise therapy and corresponding relaxation exercises can also have a positive effect on the course of the disease in sick people. In this way, possible consequences of illness, for example, a stroke, are often mitigated. Relapses, a deterioration in the overall condition, and secondary diseases are less common.

How long is a rehabilitation process?

Rehabilitationtakes three to six weeks – depending on the illness and personal needs. Several therapeutic measures are carried out every day. For example, for orthopedic patients, training the core muscles is an important element; for people with rheumatism, cold or heat applications are part of the program.

This includes methods of coping with stress as well as information about diet and physical activity. Rehabilitation usually offers the chance to get to know and try new things that are supposed to alleviate symptoms.

Follow-up care

Therehabprocess should not end when you leave the clinic. Patients should discuss with their therapist how to proceed afterward.

A lot of ways can dothis, for example, aftercare programs from the Crows Nest Pension Insurance, depending on the health problem, they include physiotherapy, exercise and sports therapy, training on healthy eating, and psychological and social support, especially for old people (retirees) found in that area.  It is mostly recommended for an outpatient basis in a rehabilitation clinic close to home.

Exercise rehab is another option.

Sportsclubs and self-help groups also organize offers. Of course, you can also train on your own or in the gym. The treating therapist knows best what makes sense.

For children and adolescents with chronic illnesses – especially with additional risk factors and comorbidities – the Crows Nest Pension Insurance offers inpatient rehabilitation designed for children and adolescents.

So that the disease’s course is alleviated as much as possible, and the consequences of the disease do not persist into adulthood, they must be treated promptly and appropriately.

Early rehabilitation can ensure the quality of life and later employability

Rehabilitation for children and adolescents focuses on the needs of the chronically ill child. It must not be confused with a mother or father-child cure provided by statutory health insurance, which is beneficial for parents. 

Typical medical indications for rehabilitation in children and adolescents

• Skin diseases (e.g., neuro dermatitis)
• Allergic diseases
• Chronic respiratory diseases (e.g., bronchial asthma, cystic fibrosis).
• Metabolic diseases (e.g., diabetes mellitus)
• Neurological diseases,
• Psychosomatic and psychomotor disorders, behavior disorders
• Diseases of the musculoskeletal system
• Damage of the internal organs (e.g., kidneys, heart, liver)
• Cancers
• Obesity in connection with other risk factors and other diseases
• Language development disorders

If training is required

In the case of inadequate handling of the illness, the children/adolescents should learn to deal with the consequences of the illness and cope with crises in everyday life. You will develop self-management strategies and practice dealing with the existing restrictions through joint activities, sports, and games.