Andrzej Kwolek
Justyna Podgórska
Justyna Rykała
Own experience in rehabilitation patients with multiple sclerosis
Andrzej Kwolek
Justyna Podgórska
Justyna Rykała
Institute of Physiotherapy of University of Rzeszów, Poland
Institute of Physiotherapy of University of Rzeszów, Poland
Institute of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Rzeszow, Rzeszow, Poland
Abstract
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is incurable disease, for which drug treatments (pharmacotherapy) are still insufficient and are only proven to a small degree regarding effectiveness. Therefore the early, continuous and comprehensive management of rehabilitation in this group of patients is indispensable because of its influence on the course of the disease and the quality of life. The aim of this study is to present experiences relating to the rehabilitation patients with multiple sclerosis. First observations and research was conducted in the seventies and eighties in ward of Gornicze Centrum Rehabilitacji Leczniczej i Zawodowej Repty in Tarnowskie Gory. Research has been continuing in the eighties in ward of Wojewodzki Szpital Zespolony in Rzeszow. In 1987 there was the first Nationwide Conference concerning rehabilitation in multiple sclerosis organized in Poland. In the Clinical Ward of Rehabilitation in Provincial Hospital no. 2, research was carried out on studies and multicentre studies. Research was oriented on new problems, such as pain, vegetative disorders, disability and quality of life for people with MS. In multicentre studies there was also the analysis of the participation in social life, quality of life and principle of rehabilitation management depending on the disease’s advancement. On V Congress PTR in 2004 there was presented the standards of physiotherapy procedures with patients with multiple sclerosis (pic. 1), which was established by PTR and is in force still today.
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