Hygienic rehabilitation and health-improving massage

The process of restoration of health and ability to work of the patients is called rehabilitation. Medical and professional (or industrial) rehabilitation are differentiated.

Medical means play major part in the system of medical rehabilitation. Curative massage is used in short time after operations, diseases or injuries to normalize blood and lymph flow, eliminate pains, edema, avoid postoperative complications, etc. Curative massage after injuries, diseases, or operations prepares the patient to earlier beginning of therapeutic exercises. Rehabilitation treatment of the patient does not end with discharge from hospital but continues until total recovery, but at this stage professional (industrial) rehabilitation replaces the medical one.

Hygienic rehabilitation and health-improving massage occupies a very important place in the system of rehabilitation means at the final stage of rehabilitation of the ability to work of the patients after diseases or injuries. Rehabilitation massage accelerates the patient’s adaptation to work, promotes quick renewal of the lost industrial skills.

Observations have shown that regimen violations during industrial rehabilitation often cause recurrent injuries. Therefore the period of industrial rehabilitation is built very individually taking into consideration the disease or injury that the patient suffered. The course of rehabilitation massage should consist of 12-20 sessions (depending on the patient’s health). First 2-5 sessions are conducted in the form of general restorative massage, the following sessions should be topical with special attention paid to the injured areas. All massage techniques can be used but the patient’s health and the nature of the injury should be taken into consideration.