Therapeutic methods
Modern neurological treatment starts at the care and nursing level, especially when it comes to seriously disable acute patients. Only well-trained and skilled care professionals can render services such as spasticity, joint contracture and bedsore prevention by means of correct patient positioning, exclusive use of one-time catheterisation in response to bladder disorders to avoid chronic urinary tract infections and to restore normal bladder functions, pneumonia and deep vein thrombosis prevention.
Such care efforts are the basis of intensive physiotherapy which gives specific practical exercise training to patients suffering from paralyses or disabilities as a result of disorders of superior regulating mechanisms. It is backed up by physical therapy methods such as electric treatment, fango packs, massages, special spas, etc. Logopaedics improves the patient's communication skills previously disabled due to illness-related speech deficits. Ergotherapy and its dedicated exercises treats neurological disorders, starting out with the disability of making defined movements down to lack of drive or planning skills.
Click here to learn more about specific medical and therapeutic methods, i.e. about the extensive medical treatment options in all areas of neurology and with separate reference to each syndrome.