Neurological-Neurosurgical Rehabilitation
Neurological patients who are conscious and can actively participate in therapeutic activities are admitted to our continuing rehabilitation facility in the Ihlsee resort area. The five wards at this site provide treatment for patients in phase C and D (BAR). Children can be housed with their parents.
A focus on recovering occupational skills
Diseases of the nervous system frequently entail paralysis, sensory failure, memory disruptions, personality changes, comprehension difficulty, and concentration problems. Often, one entire side of the body is incapacitated, and speech functions are lost. For this reason, the doctors at our Neurology Centre work closely with physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech therapists, and neuropsychologists. They help the patient recover the ability to perform everyday tasks and live independently to the greatest extent possible. The subsequent rehabilitation process places the recovery of occupational skills firmly in the foreground.
Rehabilitation is based on an integrated, holistic concept that draws on all therapeutic disciplines for a “bio-psycho-sociological” approach. In addition to addressing functional deficiencies and loss of capability, it considers issues such as the existence of other diseases and risk factors, adopting a health-conscious lifestyle, coping with illness, and addressing any potential psycho-social factors. The goal of the individual rehabilitation plan, which is developed in conjunction with the patient, is to re-integrate the patient into his or her social and occupational environment and to restore the highest possible quality of life.
The spectrum of treatment encompasses the following disease profiles:
- Vascular-related (i.e., ischemic or haemorrhagic) diseases of the brain and spinal cord
- Conditions following surgery on the external or inter-cranial vessels supplying the brain, or after surgical removal or radiation treatment of tumours in the brain or spinal cord
- Parkinson’s or other extrapyramidal movement disorders
- Inflammation of the brain or spinal cord (including multiple sclerosis and other demyelinating diseases)
- Conditions resulting from head injuries or after damage from syringomyelia
- Hypoxic brain damage following oxygen deficiency
- Lesions of the motoneuron, nerve roots, plexus, or peripheral nerves due to trauma, inflammation, (e.g. Guillain-Barré Syndrome) or other cause
- Non-inflammatory (poly-) neuropathology syndromes, such as toxic, metabolic, or hereditary-degenerative; and neuromuscular disease (e.g. amyotrophic lateral sclerosis)
- Epileptic and non-epileptic seizure disorders (e.g. narcolepsy)
- Degenerative, metabolic, and toxicologic diseases of the brain and spinal cord; spinocerebellar disease
- Neurootological diseases, chronic pain syndrome (e.g. chronic headache, migraine) and polymyalgic rheumatism, hereditary and acquired myopathy
- Surgically or non-surgically treated spinal disc injury with neurological symptoms
