Introduction
Overcoming disability and supporting your return to daily lives
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine is a medical field that provides functional rehabilitation to help maintain a high quality of life for disorders caused by diseases or trauma. In other words, if saving a dying life is a general therapeutic medicine, Rehabilitation Medicine will make the life that has been saved maximize your abilities at home and society to make it more worthy than before.
The fields of rehabilitation medicine include brain rehabilitation (stroke, traumatic brain injury), spinal cord injury rehabilitation, pain rehabilitation including disc disease and arthritis, pediatric rehabilitation (cerebral palsy, developmental delay), amputation rehabilitation, elderly rehabilitation, chronic muscle and neuropathy. These include rehabilitation, sports rehabilitation and exercise prescriptions, and electrical diagnostics of myopathy.
The rehabilitation process is conducted by rehabilitation teams that include physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech therapists, psychotherapists, prosthetic and orthosis workers, social workers, as well as rehabilitation medical specialists and rehabilitation nurses.
Area
Cranial nerve rehabilitation click to collapse contents
Cranial nerve rehabilitation is required in all cases where disorders are caused by brain diseases such as stroke, accidental brain damage, brain tumor, encephalitis, Parkinson's disease or dementia. In particular, about 85% of stroke patients develop disorders after various brain injuries, such as motor function loss, loss of sensation, pain, cognitive dysfunction, emotional change, aphasia, swallowing disorder, visual impairment, and loss of spatial perception. Depending on the symptoms, you will be in charge of treatment such as central nervous system development therapy, gait training, occupational therapy, daily life training, cognitive therapy, speech therapy, swallowing therapy, non-surgical brain stimulation therapy or proper brace placement.