Therapy Central Unit

The patients of the logopaedics department are treated for impairment of speech (aphasia), speaking (dysarthria), the voice (dysphonia) and/or swallowing (dysphagia) due to acute or chronic neurologic diseases. The deparment also treats paralyses of the facial or tongue muscles (facial nerve pareses, hypoglossal pareses).

In the larger context of individual symptoms and rehabilitation potential, logopaedic therapy aims at restoring or optimising the speech, speaking, the general ability to communicate and the ability to take in food. Therapeutic sessions normally take between 30 and 60 minutes and should be repeated every day if possible.

RKU's logopaedics department provides a complete set of curative methods:

• Acuter inpatient treatment (stroke unit, neurological clinic)
  The stroke unit (intensive care ward for stroke patients) already provides initial logopaedic support which is continued when patients move to the neurological acute patient ward.
• Rehabilitation in the clinic for physical and rehabilitation medicine (post-primary neurological rehabilitation - Phase C, follow-on cure - Phase D, occupational rehabilitation)
• Outpatient treatment

At all stages, a regularly communicating team of interdisciplinary therapists is employed consisting of logopaedists, ergotherapists, physiotherapists, physical therapists, sports therapists, and social service.