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Neurological Rehabilitation is the branch of rehabilitation that deals with the functional recovery of patients with diseases of the nervous system. Following the indications of the WHO, by neurological rehabilitation we mean that "process which, through a multidisciplinary approach, is aimed at improving the functions, reducing symptoms and increasing the sense of well-being, within the specific social context, of the subjects with neurological problems and their families. "
Neurological Rehabilitation Physiotherapy, therefore, in addition to the recovery of the functional damage that occurred at the level of the nervous system, deals with providing the most suitable strategies to allow the patient to make the most of his residual functional abilities.
We are talking about rehabilitation that has medium and long-term objectives, with the initial aim of recovering the patient's greater autonomy, in the acute and sub-acute phase of neurological damage.
The goal is to help the patient recover walking, muscle strength, sensitivity, balance, speech and comprehension problems, and pain control. Neurological Rehabilitation is, as we have seen, aimed at all those patients who have had damage to the nervous system.
The Nervous System, formed by Central Nervous System and Peripheral Nervous System, represents the input and output of all the activities and functions of our organism: damage to these structures involves alterations of command-response signals with consequent motor and psychic disabilities.
All patients with head trauma, cerebral hypoxia, ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke, degenerative diseases such as Parkinson's, Multiple Sclerosis, ALS could present neurological motor disorders such as
• Equilibrium,
• coordination,
• walking
• psychic neurological disorders such as memory, attention, language.
As we have said previously, Neurological Rehabilitation is indicated for all those patients who have pathologies or traumas that have caused damage to the Nervous System.
The neurological patient, due to the extent of the damage, presents difficulties in carrying out normal activities of daily life, making his independence compromised. They are patients who need continuous clinical and emotional assistance.
It is therefore important to know how to manage a patient of this type in the best possible way, personalizing the rehabilitation treatments thus avoiding standardized practices. OPEL physiotherapy near surrey rehabilitation team to choose the most suitable patient rehabilitation project. Generally, the rehabilitation treatment of the neurological patient lasts on average from 3 to 6 months based on the extent of the damage and functional recovery.
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