Rehabilitation: Back to Your Daily Routine in Good Health

Many medical interventions make comprehensive and specific rehabilitation necessary: after a heart attack, an accident, treatment for a tumour, a slipped disc or a hip operation, to name but a few. The aim of rehabilitation is always to make the patient “fit for life”.

Munich and its attractive surrounding countryside offer ideal rehabilitation conditions. Numerous clinics around Munich, particularly around the lakes nearby at Starnberg, Staffelsee, Tegernsee or Chiemsee, concentrate exclusively on optimum tertiary care in various fields of medicine. Following a stay in hospital, the patient is quickly restored to lasting good health with the help of qualified doctors and specially trained rehabilitation personnel.

Scientific studies have shown that rehabilitation is beneficial: after only a few weeks at a rehabilitation clinic with appropriate rehabilitation therapy, patients are pain-free and mobile again much sooner and consequential illness can be avoided.

Residential rehabilitation is indicated after the following:

  • Joint surgery and joint replacement
  • Spinal surgery
  • Surgery following accidents
  • Cerebrocranial trauma
  • Neurosurgery
  • Gastric or pectoral surgery
  • Cardiac surgery, stent implantation
  • Hospitalization due to cardiovascular disease and heart attack, respiratory disorders, rheumatic disorders, metabolic disorders and neurological disorders.

There is a wide range of rehabilitation clinics within the Munich area that also have the necessary modern diagnostic possibilities to allow precise assessment of the patient’s condition and the course of the therapy.

In order to maintain good health for as long as possible, and to prevent potential illnesses, some rehabilitation clinics offer special preventive programs. At the outset, an exact profile of the current state of health of the patient is established together with the potential risks and dangers. The patient learns how lifestyle changes can be achieved without great restrictions being imposed. These programmes are complemented by modern nutritional advice, medicinal fasting and anti-ageing programmes.

Rehabilitation is always the result of co-operation between doctors, specially trained therapists, nursing personnel and the patients themselves. Integrating family and friends is also important. According to requirements, the involvement of the family doctor may also be an important aspect of rehabilitation.

Rehabilitation includes the following:

  • Medicinal rehabilitation services with the aim of preventing potential disability or the need for residential nursing care, or of removing such needs or of preventing deterioration of the underlying condition;
  • Services for vocational rehabilitation, to promote patients’ fitness to return to work;
  • Services for social rehabilitation, promoting fitness to take part in daily life. These aim to enable the patient to cope with daily tasks and to reintegrate into his/her social environment.

Rehabilitation does not only aim to restore or maintain the physical, vocational and social competence of the patient but also to show the patient individual possibilities for coping with the illness and the demands of daily life. Patients learn how to avoid further acute illnesses and to keep chronic disorders in check as far as possible. Munich and its beautiful surroundings offer the perfect setting for this.