Rehabilitation can be defined as maximizing the physical, mental, social, occupational, vocational, special occupation and educational potential of a person with physiological or anatomical disability and environmental maladaptation.
Rehabilitation is a dynamic process and includes prevention of disability, early diagnosis, inpatient and outpatient extended care programs.
Neurological rehabilitation centers are centers where outpatient and inpatient diagnosis, treatment and all kinds of rehabilitation services are provided to patients with neurological diseases.
In these centers
- FTR specialist
- Neurologist
- Orthopedic specialist
- Internal medicine specialist
- General surgery specialist
- Psychiatrist
- Cardiologist
- Brain surgery specialist
- Anesthesiologist -Algologist.
The main goal of rehabilitation is to increase function and improve patients' ability to function as independently as possible in daily life.
In neurological rehabilitation
- Spinal cord injuries
- Stroke (paralysis)
- Head trauma
- Multiple scleosis (MS)
- Parkinson's disease
- Amniotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
- Spinocerebellar diseases
- Syringomyelia
- Spasticity
- Poliomyelitis and postpolio syndrome
- Polyneuropathies
- Entrapment neuropathies
- Peripheral nerve injuries
- Brachial plexus injuries
- Muscular dystrophies are treated.
During the rehabilitation process, the PTR specialist works multidisciplinary in the treatment of these patients. In other words, it shapes the patient's rehabilitation process together with all of the above-mentioned clinicians.
In addition to working with other clinicians, a large non-physician health team is also an integral part of the rehabilitation process.
Members of this team are
- Physiotherapist
- Rehabilitation nurse
- Occupational therapist
- Psychologist
- Speech and swallowing therapist
- Social worker
- Orthotic prosthesis technician
- Recreational therapist
- Vocational counselors
- Dietitian
- It can be counted as an occupational therapist.
It is a care system aimed at improving the quality of life in progressive, incurable or slowly progressing diseases.
Health care is like a tree whose roots are physical, spiritual, psychological and social life and whose branches are hospital intensive care unit, palliative intensive care unit, nursing home, home care, daily hospital care, consultant physician, etc. You cannot separate the branches and the roots.
In Turkey, patients and their families often request advanced life support in "intensive care" instead of home care, palliative care, nursing home or hospice as the place where end-of-life care is provided. Advanced life support is defined as a place where patients with a chance to save their lives are hospitalized and where symptoms that develop suddenly due to a pre-existing healthy or underlying chronic prolonged disease are treated. Brain hemorrhage, heart attack or traffic accident are examples of these situations.
Evaluating the care status of patients in Intensive Care Units and transferring them to other types of professional care will alleviate the burden of care of patients and families and will provide maximum efficiency in the level of benefit in their treatment, the morale level of patients and their relatives and cost effectiveness.
Expectation from Neurorehabilitation Center:
In the studies conducted, the expectations of patients and their relatives are listed as comfort, symptom management, emotional support, information, education, communication, being asked and authorized in decisions related to the patient, and providing clear answers to the questions of the patient care providers at the desired time.
In line with these expectations, patients and their relatives are looking for facilities where they can spend more time with the patient and where they can receive personalized, adaptable and flexible care. Neurorehabilitation Center is an organization established in line with these expectations