Neuro rehabilitation (rehab) is a doctor-supervised program designed for people with diseases, injury, or disorders of the nervous system. Neurological rehab can often improve function, reduce symptoms, and improve the well-being of the patient.

You know someone with a neurological illness for long now and isn’t able to lead a normal life just like that before the illness?

Well, there is a huge ray of hope directed at you, that will help your loved one to revive back to normal life with no further hinderance in carrying out daily life activities in a normal fashion.

What is Neuro Rehabilitation?

Neuro rehabilitation is a subspeciality of physiotherapy that deals with the person suffering from any sort of neurological disorder brain or spinal cord dysfunction) which leads to the abnormal functioning of the human body because of the disruption in the normal pathway of signal transfer from brain or spinal cord to lower body. It may manifest in the form of movement disorder, functional, behavioral, speech, memory, balance or coordination disorders.

What are the common neurological diseases that people seek treatment for?

Following is the list of ailments in which people usually seek for neuro rehabilitation

• Spinal cord injuries
• Brain trauma
• Stroke
• Parkinson’s
• Sciatica
• Muscular dystrophies
• Bell’s palsy/ facial palsy
• Cerebral palsy
• Multiple sclerosis
• Spina bifida
• Vestibular issues
• Cervicogenic headache

What is stroke rehabilitation

Stroke is a condition in which you brains gets damage because of ischemic infarction or hemorrhage. This results in damage to the brain.

If your left side of brain damages hen your right side gets paralyzed and vice versa. Stroke rehabilitation is a comprehensive treatment program to help the patients who have suffered stroke in order to relearn the skills they lost due to the brain damage caused by stroke. Range of motion (ROM) exercises and mobility training are included in stroke rehabilitation.

Here at Islamabad Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation center, we retrain your brain in order to get regain the muscle strength.

What is a typical stroke recovery timeline?

Recovery time of the stroke is actually unpredictable. You can even get completely better within weeks of a stroke, or it may take months or even years to get full recovery.  Initial 3 months are very significant for stroke rehabilitation and is considered as golden time for recovery.

Most common presenting complaint in neurological disorder?

Following is the list of symptoms that the patients having neurological disorders

• Loss of muscle strength
• Lack of normal movement of body
• Lack of coordination
• Numbness or Tingling

How does neuro rehabilitation help person get better?

Helping people with neuro disorders involves multidisciplinary approach including physical and pharmacological therapy. neuro rehabilitation plays its role by providing various form of treatment and management options in the form of physical therapy which helps person regain normal functioning and strength of the body muscles and carrying out effective movements.

 

What are the treatment options available in neuro rehabilitation?

neuro rehabilitation includes numerous treatment modalities which are as follow:

• Physiotherapy
• Occupational therapy
• Speech therapy

What do we do at IPRC?

Neuro rehabilitation specialist at IPRC initially takes the full history and examines the patients. After complete examination our panel of physiotherapists sit and device the treatment plan. Panel make the short term and long-term goals. After that, the panel decide which complaints shoulder be addressed first.

The main purpose is to rehabilitate the patients and make him/ her independent. At IPRC we do a lot for the ailments in neuro rehabilitation

• Electrotherapy
• Bo bath techniques
• PNF techniques
• Gait Re-training
• Balance Re-training
• Mobility Aids
• Fall Prevention Program
• Vestibular Rehabilitation
• Mirror therapy

How does IPRC excel at providing neuro rehabilitation?

Islamabad Physiotherapy & Rehabilitation Center is one of the leading centers of the capital that provides rehabilitation with their rehab experts and advance techniques and equipment.

Dr Bismah Faryal is a neuro rehabilitation specialist who also serves as a managing director at IPRC. She excels in providing rehabilitation with her immense knowledge and great skills.

 

Blog#6:

Sport and Exercise Rehabilitation

Focus Keyword:sport and exercise rehabilitation

Do you want to know about the importance of sport and exercise rehabilitation nowadays? The main purpose of rehabilitation is to abet human beings and give them the chance to be recalled to life. Rehabilitation serves himself as a speech, mental, sports, and exercise therapist in hospitals. The importance of rehabilitation increases day by day in every country because sometimes we face a swear injury in the playground and occasionally during exercise.

Importance of sport in our life

Nobody can deny the importance of sports in our lives. It gives us strength to our body. In foreign countries, the trend of sport must have significant importance. If a nation wants good health, and to overcome disease then try to spend its free time with nature. Because when we were engaged with sports then we have a 100 percent chance to avoid tension and depression.

Rehabilitation in sport

Sometimes when we play a game and unfortunately, we slip down in the playground due to improper balance. Then we have chances to face injury.  This injury can be sworn or minor, and then we need to call urgently a rehabilitation for our help. At this time the condition of the patient looks like a fish out of the water. Rehabilitate proves an angel in our difficult situation.

Causes of injuries in sport

1. Impropriate instruction
2. Environmental condition
3. Opposite participants
4.  without warm-up

1)  Impropriate instruction

A coach can be become the cause of injury for players, due to his improper instruction. No doubt, a game is based on the hands of the coach.  If a coach does not shore about the rules and regulations then he will connect two parties for fighting. Because both parties try to give the best performance in the playground. And no one can bear injustice. In fighting must have chances to injuries and coach will responsible for it?

2) Environmental condition

When we play in the ground sometimes environmental conditions will also be effected on our health. For example, in summer due to hot rays of the sun and in winter due to snowfall or fog. These things affected our health and we have a chance to face injury.

3) Opposite participants

In the playground when both parties play at the same time, every party wants to win and try to create difficulties for others. Sometimes second party creates a disturbance for one for the sake of win the match.

4) Without a warm-up

If we start to play without warm-up then we have chances to face swear injury. Because our muscles are not able to bear some sort of stretch. If we start with a warm-up then our muscles were ready to bear stretch.

 In which techniques use rehabilitation in sports?

1. Rice(rest, ice, compression, and elevation)
2. Massage
3. Stretching

 

1) Rice(Rest, Ice, Compression, and Elevation)

In this technique, 4 words have a lawyer of symbolic significance. The word R   represents rest. Rest plays an influential role in the improvement of health and rehabilitation plays an extensive role in the improvement of the patient. The word I represent ice because in rare cases when a patient is injured,  then rehabilitation centers suggest that do foment with ice because we can feel much better with the ice fomentation. The word C represent compression, rehabilitation also uses this technique just for the sake of good health .and the last word of rice E  represents elevation, and no doubt it is a superb source that uses rehabilitation for the care of the patient.

2) Massage

It is an outstanding trick which uses by a human being. Actually, they want to give recall to life.  During games sometimes we feel extremely affection because our muscles cannot bear the stretch. Then a therapist helps out, and he rubs our body part which is affected by stretch.  A therapist use cream, grease, and herbal oil for massage.

3) Stretching

It is an amazing method that uses rehabilitation for the amelioration of patients .and also a healthy technique for improvement.  We feel much better with the process of stretching.

 Most common injuries which we face during games

• Knee injury
• Ankle injury
• Finger fetched
• Foot fracture

Importance of exercise in our life

No one can deny the importance of exercise in our life. If people want to spend their life happily and want to spend life without a medicine then try to keep the focus on exercise and a healthy diet. When a patient is injured then rehabilitation suggests that some exercise according to his injury .actually they want to recovery with the use of exercise.

Some tricks which can prove beneficent in old age

• On a daily basis walk
• Exercise
• Healthy diet
• Avoid junk food
• Use of fresh vegetables and fruits
• Connect himself with pure things

We can say that sport and exercise rehabilitation play a domestic role in life.  No one can disclaim it .without rehabilitation it is never possible to grow your success in the field of sports and exercise. Every field has specific importance but the growth of rehabilitation increases day by day. Rehabilitation centers give the services in government and as well as in private sectors for recalled to life.

Elaborate the services of rehabilitations, which they provide?

• Rehabilitation wants to increase the strength of the body.
• They desiderate to reduce the pain.
• They give the first priority to use a natural process like exercise, games, and massage while on the other hand, they try to avoid operating.
• Through sport and exercise rehabilitation beget the flexibility in injured person.