by Growing Needs | Apr 5, 2024 | Healthcare & Rehabilitation, Services
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), rehabilitation is an essential part of universal health coverage along with promotion of good health, prevention of diseases, treatment and palliative care.
Rehabilitation helps a child, adult or older person to be as independent as possible in everyday activities and enables participation in education, work, recreation and meaningful life roles such as taking care of family.
What? A range of techniques are used in therapy such as exercise, cold and heat treatments, massage, and stretching to help one better recover from injuries. Rehabilitation often has an emotional and mental aspect to it too and rehabilitation better helps one cope with the emotional side of things.
Where? Rehabilitation therapy can be done at a rehabilitation centre or also at home. Typically at rehabilitation centres, there are professional staff and facilities which are key in ensuring an effective treatment process. After an injury, seniors might need more dedicated attention which a rehabilitation centre can provide.
Through physical rehabilitation, the therapist would assess your condition and from there recommend a range of exercises and activities to aid in mobility and strengthen your coordination and balancing abilities. Such might often be overlooked but after it is compromised, it is only then that we realise how important these are. Muscle stretches are also common in helping one gain flexibility.
In turn, if one commits to following the plan recommended by their therapist, it would definitely help in gaining strength so you can return to life as usual. Furthermore, it lowers the risk of falls and injuries.
The road to recovery can vary greatly for every individual and rehabilitation comes in to provide a bespoke recovery plan for each individual. One could be suffering from pain after an injury or post operation and it is vital to pay attention to this pain. Physical rehabilitation improves the healing process by using massage, heat, cold, electric currents, or sound waves to help with pain management or mostly gives exercises that you can do at home to help with the pain.
For those recovering from more severe conditions e.g. stroke, rehabilitation therapy becomes even more important to minimise complications and maximise recovery.
As you are further into your road to recovery, it does help that the mini progress you’re making each day brings you a step closer to getting back to your normal routine. The longer that one is unable to because of pain, mobility issues or slow recovery process, it definitely becomes a mood bummer.
Have you also heard of pet therapy? Pet therapy aims to improve seniors’ quality of life by allowing them to interact with specially trained animals.
Here are some rehabilitation centres you can check out!
The therapists will discuss with the elderly and their caregivers to customise an intervention programme according to their goals and priorities
Singapore 466500
In essence, rehabilitation is essential to achieve optimal function and ability. Under the supervision of trained professionals, we expect one’s road to recovery to be a safer and faster one. We hope that this article has helped you in gaining 1 or 2 insights into rehabilitation therapy and that you can find an option that is most suited.
Growing Needs grew out of our own encounters with caring for our aging parents and reflecting on the Growing Needs that we ourselves would face as we advance in years. We hope to build a community that will learn, share and contribute towards caring for the growing needs of our loved ones.
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