Introduction To Saans Rehabilitation Program

What Is Rehabilitation?

A comprehensive intervention for patients with chronic diseases who are symptomatic and often have decreased daily activities.

It is designed to

• Reduce symptoms

• Optimize functional status

• Increase participation

• Reduces health care costs

• Stabilises or reversing systemic manifestations of the disease

• Address morbidities and their consequences through education and exercise 

Why Rehabilitation is the Need of Hour

• Chronic Disease Era

• Associated Mental Health Concerns with Chronic Diseases.

• Deconditioning Effects

• Continuity in Healthcare delivery system

Who Can Benefit?

• Chronic respiratory disease symptomatic with optimum drug therapy

• Chronic cardiovascular diseases with breathlessness despite optimum intervention and drug therapy

• Chronic neurological diseases

• Chronic orthopedic diseases, pre & post operative conditions

• Lifestyle disorders like Stress, Sleep, Obesity, Diabetes, Hypertension etc. 

• Special children

• Pre Natal and Post Natal Conditions

• Oncological Condition

• Chronic and Acute pain conditions

• Alcohol Deaddiction & Smoking Cessation

What are Consequences of advanced chronic disease?

• Peripheral Muscle dysfunction

• Respiratory muscle dysfunction

• Nutritional abnormalities

• Cardiac impairment

• Skeletal disease

• Sensory defects

• Neurocognitive dysfunction

• Psychosocial dysfunction

What are the components of Rehabilitation program?

• Proper education of Disease process

• Exercise Training

• Psychosocial/behavioral intervention/CBT

• Nutrition assessment

• Breathing and Relaxation techniques

• Medications, devices & specific therapy

• Outcome Assessment

What are the Possible Benefits?

• Improved Exercise Capacity

• Reduced perceived intensity of dyspnoea and stress

• Improve health-related QOL

• Reduced hospitalization

• Reduced anxiety and depression

• Improved limb function and ADL’s

• Benefits extend well beyond immediate period of training 

Rehab Team 

For a successful rehabilitation program, it requires an efficient coordination and teamwork of medical professionals, which includes:

• Doctors

• Physiotherapists

• Nurses

• Nursing Attendants and health care workers

• Wellness Coach and Psychologists

• Nutritionists

• Education Providers