What Does Rehabilitation Department Do?

When being asked what does rehabilitation department do, there are different answers:

Therapist A says: let those who are bedridden to sit, let those who can only sit to stand, let those who can only stand to walk, and let those who walk back to life.

Therapist B says: comprehensively and coordinately apply various medical, educational, social and professional methods to recover and reconstruct the functions of the sick, injured and disabled (including congenital disability) as soon as possible, so that their physical, mental, social and economic abilities can be recovered as much as possible, and they can go back to life, work, and social integration.

Therapist C says: let the patient live with more dignity.

Therapist D says: let the troubled pain away from patients, make their life healthier.

Therapist E says: “preventive treatment” and “recovery of old diseases”.

What Is the Necessity of Rehabilitation Department?

A patient could hardly restore his/her movement ability completely after fracture surgery no matter how successful the surgery is. At this time, he/she has to turn to rehabilitation.

Normally, hospitalization can only solve the most basic problem of survival from a stroke. After that, they will have to learn how to walk, eat, swallow, and integrate into society through rehabilitation training.

Rehabilitation covers a wide range of problems, such as neck, shoulder, low back and leg pain, sports injury, osteoporosis, recovery of motor function after fracture and joint replacement, joint deformity of children, even complex cardiopulmonary and brain diseases, aphasia, dysphonia, dysphagia, and postpartum urinary incontinence.

In addition, doctors will evaluate patient’s physical condition, for example, some people are not suitable for massage, and massage can even lead to heart attack in some severe cases.

In short, the rehabilitation department can be understood as “preventive treatment of diseases” and “recovery of old diseases”, so that abnormal functions can return to normal. In the aspects that the traditional treatment can’t help, rehabilitation can.

To sum up, rehabilitation is economic, and is suitable for all kinds of pain, disease, and dysfunction with the help of professional rehabilitation doctors and therapists giving personalized rehab plans.