Saturday 8 June 2013

spa cure for ailments and rehabilitation

Classic spa vacation, there are no longer

Bremen. The experiences of our readers in practices and clinics? What works well, and where there might be problems? We have asked our health in check facts - and received almost 150 responses. In the third part we focus on the treatments and rehabilitation measures. With representatives of AOK and the medical service of the health insurance we have talked about the main points.

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Not always sufficient treatment from the doctor or the hospital - sometimes the patient needs a medical rehabilitation, short rehab to be fit again. The majority of our readers had no difficulty to apply this - or has not needed any rehab. Often the rehab directly following a hospital stay, such as after a hip surgery or a stroke. "It is quite clear that rehabilitation is required," says Jörn Hons, spokesman for the AOK Bremen / Bremerhaven. "The social services of the hospitals will take care of the organization."

Help instead of cure for cancer patients

Help rather than cure
For 50 years, palliative care seeks to relieve the agony of dying. Slowly makes also paid.

"If I had only learned to know you sooner!" Sighs the 60-year-old patient Franziska Gerhard (name changed) and is hard to understand. Many years ago, has been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, a progressive incurable nerve disease in spurts. Meanwhile, the patient can only swallow hard and speak. Because they can not cough up enough saliva and respiratory secretions, it barely gets air. At least now the time has come for physicians from neurology to include the mobile team of palliative care unit at the University Hospital in Freiburg in the treatment. It must have been such an inspiration for the woman: "For years fought alone against my disease Now also something is done for me.". If it goes to Gerhild Becker, palliative care should no longer be subject solely to the whiff of impending death. The Freiburg professor, first in Baden-Württemberg holds a chair for this specialist field, vehemently pleaded for "early integration": "Palliative care should not at the end of life are used, but as soon as an incurable disease has been diagnosed."

for cancer patients

cure for simple wounds

Wound clock is ticking for good healing


SYMPOSIUM nurses and physicians inform yourself about care options


 The first wound symposium a year ago was a success and a gain for the work of nurses or doctors who deal with daily wound care immediately. During this period, the net profit association wound Bad Kreuznach was founded and sat down for a list of activities from the circuit to the organization which is now a second training event. The second symposium in the county government was the success of the premiere after in any case. The chairs in the large meeting room were not enough. The great importance of the symposium for the practice of professionals is also being classified as recertification.

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