Advanced Rehabilitation

The advanced rehabilitation section is something of a bridge between early rehabilitation and follow-up therapy. This area provides further treatment for patients who have already successfully completed the early-rehabilitation phase. But there are also patients admitted from clinics for acute diseases who do not require the intensive care and treatment of the early-rehabilitation phase, although they do not as yet satisfy the preconditions for transfer to the follow-up therapy phase.

Active participation in the rehabilitation process is first necessary. This self-help capability is one of the central tasks set at the advanced rehabilitation phase. It requires that the patient plays an increasingly important role in his or her basic care. Effective control of the bladder and the rectum should have been achieved. Restlessness and disorientation should have receded to the extent that continuous monitoring of the patient is no longer necessary. Apart form the self-help capability, another objective of advanced rehabilitation is social reintegration. The ability to engage in social contact is a precondition for the advanced rehabilitation phase; language, speaking, social consciousness, motivation and emotional stability are very important elements of successful social reintegration.