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Rehabilitation


How fast and successful your recovery after the surgery can be? Are you confident making first step with your new hip? Doctor recommends moving, but do you know how? The first steps, the first two weeks after surgery are crucial in successful recovery. Professional physiotherapy and rehabilitation ensures full and satisfactory recovery in half of time one would expect. You are not left alone few days after surgery but benefit from up to three weeks in rehabilitation centre or spa under the care of medical professionals who design individual program of procedures and exercises. Intensive professional aftercare minimizes the risk of complications.

 

I. Rehabilitation before surgery (4 days):
  • How to cope with the first days after surgery and post-operational period.
  • Learning to walk with crutches.
  • Legs and waist muscles strengthening
  • Pain Management
   Individual Rehabilitation (Selective):
  • Kinetic therapy, velo-gym (veloergotherapy), medical pool gym.
  • Underwater massage.
  • Medical herbs bath
  • Health and beauty complex III „Aphrodite“ (body wash, body honey mask, Turkish steam sauna, pool, general body massage).
  • 30 min classical whole body  massage therapy
  • Physiotherapy: TENS (anaesthetic stimulation of affected joint), FES (functional electro stimulation)
  • Psychotherapist consultation
  • Autogenic training.
  • Medical herbs cocktails
  • Detailed patient‘s education program: safety movement after surgery, exercises.
   
II. Rehabilitation after surgery : Pain management, return of joint‘s functioning,  return of strength in the waist, bottom and operated leg muscles, teaching of safe functional mobility, release of psychological discomfort , prophylactic of thrombi-embolic complications.    Rehabilitation Treatments – 1st Week after surgery:
  • Individual kinetic therapy, twice per day.
  • Ergo therapy.
  • Classical massage of whole 30 min, except operated leg.
  • Physiotherapy: TENS, FES, magnetic therapy, in the areas of the other joints or waist.
  • Medical treatment: Fraxiparine, analgesics, anti-inflammatory non-steroidal drugs, heparin ointments, medications for side effects and diseases.
  • Consultation of psychotherapist.
  • Autogenic training.
  • Patient‘s education programme.
  • Consultation of orthopaedic surgeon, laboratory screening, dressing, EKG (if needed).
   Rehabilitation Treatments – 2nd and 3rd Week after surgery:
  • All elements of the 1st Week treatment
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  • Classical massage of whole body 30min, except affected area (leg).
  • Individual medical gym in the pool.
  • Jacuzzi pool.
  • Health and beauty complex III „Aphrodite“ (body wash, body honey mask, Turkish steam sauna, pool, general body massage).
   Notes:
  • All water procedures are applied after surgery only after doctor‘s evaluation.
  • Time limit of axial load is determined by the head surgeon.





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