Expert of Ministry of Health of Azerbaijan on medical rehabilitation

A specialist in the Ministry of Health Guseynova answered topical questions about medical rehabilitation entering the accounts of the Ministry on social networks.

To the question of what medical rehabilitation is and after what diseases it is recommended, Huseynova said that “medical rehabilitation is a complex of therapeutic and preventive measures aimed at the maximum possible restoration of the patient’s lost abilities after various diseases. Currently, medical rehabilitation is not just the appointment of any exercises after discharge from the hospital or the course of physiotherapy at the end of the stationary period. This is a set of measures that include the participation of doctors of different spheres – physiotherapists, massage therapists, labor -derivatives, psychologists, speech therapists and other specialists. Medical rehabilitation includes not Only the general healing of the patient, but also the restoration of his muscle force, the prevention of complications and relapses. “

According to Huseynova, “at present, medical rehabilitation is effective in the treatment of a wide range of diseases (stroke, traumatic brain injury, spinal injury, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson disease, peripheral nervous system, children’s cerebral paralysis, rheumatic diseases, sports injuries and bruises, after neurosurgical, arthrological and cardiological operations, scoliosis, etc.), in recent years, such areas as cystic therapy, post -and -and -time restoration, rehabilitation in chronic pain.

An important role in rehabilitation is assigned to physical exercises, since patients, for example, after neurosurgical interventions, suffer from impaired movements. In case of speech impairment, the patient is engaged in a speech therapist. He seems to learn to speak again. If the patient used to have some specialty, then the physiotherapist helps to restore his existing skills or acquire others that are best suited for him.

The main methods and means of medical rehabilitation include: physical exercises, kinesitherapy, massage, physiotherapeutic methods, manual therapy, various methods of electrical stimulation (the method consists in improving the conduct of nerve impulses to skeletal muscles), cryotherapy (exposure to cold), injection methods, injection methods, injective methods Social, psychological and speech therapy assistance, robotics and various virtual programs.