Physical therapy
Physical therapy is an important element of medical treatment in any department. It uses natural chemical and physical stimuli, always taking the anatomic and physiologic condition of the respective patient into account.
It is the treatment's objective to stimulate natural physiologic reactions of the organism, in order to restore, maintain or foster health and well-being, as well as to further the patient's capability of taking care of themselves. If this latter objective cannot be achieved, it is the physiotherapist's job to enable relatives to look after the respective patient by means of information, training or direct assistance (e.g. in the fields of pediatrics and geriatrics or after serious neurological disorders).
Physical therapy is used in the following fields, in particular:
- Traumatology: after surgical operations on the locomotor apparatus and the spine, with victims of an accident, acute disc prolapse, degenerative conditions such as osteoporosis
- Neurology: e.g. after apoplectic stroke, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, conservative treatment in case of disc prolapse or other disorders of the motor system
- Internal medicine: e.g. in cases of pulmonary or cardiovascular diseases, diabetes mellitus
- Surgery: e.g. after operations on organs and vessels
- Pediatrics: any disease in childhood
- Oncology: e.g. after oncosis
- Gynaecology: e.g. after childbirth or operations on the breasts
Physical therapy requires a medical prescription. Treatment is performed by physical therapists, masseurs and balneotherapists etiher at the sickroom or at the department of physical therapy which is equipped with modern medical devices as well as a kinetotherapeutic bath.
Services:
- Physical therapy
- Physical therapy on neurological basis (Bobath and proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation, PNF)
- Manual therapy
- Sling table treatment
- Physical therapy of sports injuries
- Kinetotherapeutic bath
- Application of ice
- Classical massage
- Hot air bath
- Fangotherapy
- Underwater massage
- Massage of connective tissue
- Manual lymphatic drainage
- Hydroelectric bath
- Electrotherapy
- Inhalation, cold, warm
All therapies can be performed on an outpatient basis (all health insurance funds, government safety associations).
Direction:
Patricia Heckelmann
Phone.: +49.6431.292-4446
Medical Team:
head physican
Dr. Joachim Hillmeier,
Unfall- und orthopaedische Chirurgie
head physican
Dr.med. Christoph Oberwittler,
Neurology
