Rehabilitation

More and more often disorders, illnesses or trauma are not eliminated during the onset–therapy–recovery cycle. Rather, they tend to lead to some form of disability which becomes a life-long burden for the sufferer. A multi-faceted and interdisciplinary approach can provide the appropriate solution, with a view to improving the patient’s quality of life.

Rehabilitation is a process of implementing solutions to help the patient recover the best possible quality of life and physical, functional and emotional independence, while limiting their treatment options little as possible. Thus it is necessary to take into consideration needs, individual and family preferences, disability, residual and recoverable abilities as well as environmental, contextual and personal factors.

Medical fields’

a) Post-surgical care::

• Orthopaedics

• Neurosurgery

b) Rehabilitation for degenerative motor-system diseases

c) Neurology::

• consequences of cerebro-vascular disease

• head trauma

• degenerative or trauma-related bone-marrow lesions

• multiple sclerosis

• Parkinson’s disease

• movement disorder

d) Sports medicine::

• post-trauma clinical assessment

• performance improvement (performance assessment)

• injury preventioni

Assessment facility: Neuromotor and Functional Analysis Laboratory

FURTHER TECHNOLOGICAL CAPACITY

The physiotherapy department also offers the following treatment possibilities:

• electro-stimulus therapy

• magnetic therapy

• ultrasound treatment

• vacuum therapy

• thermal aquatic rehabilitation programmes

• corrective exercise programmes

• personal trainer at the gym or swimming pool

Much of the treatment and services offered by the Rehabilitation department are covered by the Swiss Health Service.