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Publication of the Medical Rehabilitation is under the auspices of the Committee on Rehabilitation, Physical Education and Social Integration of the Polish Academy of Science
Article
Medical Rehabilitation - quarterly journal
Volume 12 year 2008, Issue number 2
Model of therapeutic rehabilitation
Authors: Wojciech Kiebzak, Ireneusz M. Kowalski, Małgorzata Kiebzak
Medical Rehabilitation 2008; 12(2): 31-33
Model of therapeutic rehabilitation
Model leczniczego usprawniania
Wojciech Kiebzak 1,2, Ireneusz M. Kowalski 3,4, Małgorzata Kiebzak 5
1 The Department of Physiotherapy, Children's Hospital of Kielce, Poland
2 Faculty of Health Science, the Kochanowski University of Kielce, Poland
3 Children Rehabilitation Hospital in Ameryka near Olsztyn
4 Warmińsko-Mazurski University in Olsztyn
5 The Świętokrzyski branch of NFZ (National Health Fund)
Key words
physiotherapy, rehabilitation, intuition, ethics, culture, humanism
Summary
Contemporary rehabilitation, playing the key role in complex patient care, is being precisely described. Culture, ethics and humanism also play an important role in this description but this role is, however, understood in various ways. The above-mentioned definitions determine the need of achieving best possible therapeutic effects. Therefore, we assume that the method of rehabilitation treatment is a cultural value that focuses on the generally acknowledged idea of caring for each person’s proper functioning in society. The above-mentioned cultural value comprises personality structure of its creator. In practice, the decision about selecting the method of rehabilitation is taken by the person responsible for and managing the patient. The decision, made after analysis of available knowledge, is also based on intuition. Analysis of observation of therapist’s professional development pathways allows identifying typical professional behaviours. Humanitarian conduct of the whole rehabilitation team is vital in the process of rehabilitation treatment. The sum of positive humanitarian behaviours constitutes the basis for achievement of success in the field of improvement of motor activity. The rehabilitation team consisting of physicians and physiotherapists, together with psychologists, and occupation therapists creates conditions for the physically impaired persons to fully return to functioning in the society. The process occurs by improving motor efficiency in parallel with increasing physical fitness but also by generating and consolidating psychomotor features that enable patients’ recovery and their full acceptance by the society.