Early Rehabilitation

Early rehabilitation is a central care task of the Children's Hospital Schömberg. It forms the interface between acute care and rehabilitation and becomes necessary, for example, after a serious accident with polytrauma or injuries to the brain and spinal cord, after near-drowning or a life-threatening illness.

Early rehabilitation describes the intensive and sensitive nursing, therapeutic and medical care of the affected children and adolescents and their families. This path "back to life" can take a few weeks, but also many months and in individual cases longer than a year. Our medical staff has a lot of experience in the treatment with medication of the sometimes severe and long-lasting accompanying symptoms of this process, which is also called remission.

Relatively often, brain damage leads to the development of symptomatic epilepsy, which we can diagnose and treat with a great deal of experience at the Children`s Hospital Schömberg.

In addition, we carry out further measures within the framework of early rehabilitation. For example, tracheotomised patients can be weaned off the tracheal cannula if the findings allow. We also offer a wide variety of therapies for feeding difficulties. Positioning and mobilisation are mainly carried out by our nursing and therapy team.

It is very important for us to provide patients and their families with detailed advice and support as part of discharge management.
 

Every early rehabilitation course is different and positive and negative developments are not always predictable. Therefore, predictions about the course of treatment, especially at the beginning of treatment, are not meaningful and do not lead to the desired results.

In contrast to the overall prognosis, there is a good understanding of certain aspects of the remission process which are listed and explaines below.