Watan: The physiotherapy department at the Hospital of Bethlehem Arab Rehabilitation is the only section in Palestine to provide healthy and physical rehabilitation programs in that one, which made it a destination for treatment in Palestine, especially after recording success stories for people who had strokes or traffic accidents and were unable to move their bodiesAfter these injuries, they went out with their full physical functions after receiving hospital treatment.
The department provides its various various services, and includes water therapy, and the external clinic that receives patients outside the clinic, and treatment is provided to post -traffic, fractures, back and neck pain and equipped with the latest treatment techniques in addition to the internal career department and the children's treatment department.
Also, one of the most important sections of the department is the water therapy department, which distinguishes the physiotherapy circle of the association, because water therapy is important for every person who enters the rehabilitation department and the cases vary between strokes, spinal cord injuries, head and fractures and most of these injuries are useful for them, while the third sectionIt is the internal rehabilitation department and is considered the largest among the departments and is concerned with all nervous injuries and bones, the fourth section for children's treatment and is separated from the rest of the departments, and the fifth section of light and hearty care, and a natural remedy remains with patients in order to take care of them in the early stages of the disease before transferring it to the rehabilitation department.
Radwan: The Rehabilitation Department is the distinguished and only in Palestine, which is able to provide distinguished services
Abdel -Mahdi Radwan, Director of the Physiotherapy Department at the Hospital of Bethlehem Arab Rehabilitation, said that the Department of Physiotherapy was established since the establishment of the Arab Association in the late sixties, and the beginning of the association was the physiotherapy department where the founder of this department was Edmun Shehadeh, Director General of the Bethlehem Arab Rehabilitation Association, which is the firstA physiotherapist in Palestine, where the department developed to expand many supplements from the Physiotherapy Department.
He stressed, “The association is considered the only and distinctive in the rehabilitation process due to its Iraq and its experience in the field of career, and we are at a permanent knowledge of any scientific new ones in this field, and we always try to obtain higher education for the employees of the Physical therapy department by keeping pace with each new ones, in order to raise the qualitythe work".
And he added: The Arab Association is distinguished from the rest of the hospitals by dealing with it in a comprehensive manner with the patient from a psychological and physical point of view, noting that the patient in the rehabilitation department has care and care as a human being in order to feel that he is in a family atmosphere and not arapeutic and we care about the patient in his home through his family with the treatment room as He stressed that what distinguishes the natural therapist is that it is sitting for the patient for a long time, and one of the most contact with the human body is the profession of the natural therapist. On the capabilities of the Physiotherapy Department, Radwan said, “The possibilities in the hospital are at the highest level, especially since the department was established as a physical therapy, and provides five services such as outpatient clinics, water therapy, a children's section, services provided in cardiac and reluctant clinics, surgical departments, and devices used from the best technologies In the world and we seek to develop it, the nature of our work depends on working with the physical therapist, because the physical therapist can understand the patient more than any other technology, and communication is better through understanding the patient's feelings. ”
"The department receives thousands of university students, and the physiotherapy team consists of eight therapists distributed over the five departments, and they work with high professionalism in order to meet the patient's needs in the hospital."
He pointed out, "The stories of success are many in this field and we do not turn to mentioning them in the media in order to preserve the privacy of the patient, and to take into account his feelings."
Radwan explained, "The rehabilitation process is integrated, which mimics a person in a comprehensive manner and is not limited to one side. For example, when we come to an elderly condition with a fracture on one of his parties, we do not look at such cases in material terms, but on the contrary we consider it an opportunity for him to rehabilitate itAnd not only at the affected side, but we help him to qualify and also qualify the unacceptable muscles, in order to better and effectively return to society.
Circle employees: Our slogan is a better life for everyone and we were able to return many to their normal life
For his part, physiotherapist Murad Salama, official of the Water Therapy Department, said by swimming, "Aqueous therapy is a form of physical therapy and is used in the Arab Assembly, and water therapy is the only one in the West Bank, and it is only present in the Arab Society Hospital and is characterized by this thing."
He added, "The water therapy depends on several points, the most important of which is during the presence of the patient inside the water, the weight of the body is light, and therefore the pressure on the joints decreases and the movement of the patient is easier and more effectively compared to outside the water, i.e. as a functional movement that is more efficient."
And he added, “We use several exercises and this depends on the case, and we come to treatment from outpatient clinics or rehabilitation patients, and treatment is done according to the condition, such as stroke injuries, spinal cord, or in outpatient clinics such as fractures or back, neck and upper and lower extremities, and thus eachThe case of taking its exercises separately, and it is easy to deal with cases due to the ease of movement inside the water.
On proving the effectiveness of "water therapy" in the disease, Salama said: “Aqueous therapy has proven very high. Patients feel improvement within the pool compared to movements outside the pool, which reflects the patient’s psyche positively as well as health.
He pointed out, “The experiences we learned by taking courses in the Arab Society Hospital, and helped to provide treatment better in the disease, such as the condition that you photographed this condition suffers from a spinal marrow injury that caused complete paralysis of the limbs, we started treatment at the rehabilitation stage until it could enterThe stage of water therapy, these steps helped reduce the existing stretching condition, became more soft, and later help the patient to swim and we all work as an integrated team.
The ability to treat and rehabilitate Corona injured
In turn, Ahmed Hamamra, head of a physiotherapist team, said that the department works with all its capabilities to provide the best treatment services in this framework and always seeks to develop as it has accompanied the development to be able to treat the diseases of the times, the last of which is the patients of Corona who were eloquently injured as a result of the pandemic, where patients suffer from many problems in Breathing is a constant need to rely on oxygen, as this situation weakens their upper and lower extremities, and the patient becomes unable to carry out his basic functions, as we received many patients such as the punishment of Atari who arrived and he is unable to move his eyes, and today he returned to his health naturally.
Humaqra added that the patients who were introduced in this condition are now moving and artificial breathing was raised from them and they successfully perform their functions due to the health rehabilitation provided by the department, stressing that the slogan of the department and its employees in the physiotherapy department is a better life for all.Take into account every case
In turn, the specialist in the physiotherapy department, Aseel Zaghari, said, “Our work in the Arab Society Department is heading towards internal rehabilitation, such as nerves such as brain injuries and spinal cord resulting from strokes and traffic accidents that most often cause pieces of spinal cord, whether cut or partial.”
And she added, “We are doing qualification for patients, for example a patient with strokes. Part of his brain is exposed to paralysis and in this case the patient cannot practice his normal life as before, and we work to rehabilitate the limbs to be able to move gradually.” She pointed out, “AllThe condition of a patient differs from the other, and even the physical abilities of the patient who is injured is the one that determines the patient's disability rate, and each patient differs from the other according to the brain.
And she continued, “There are many cases that affect the immune system, and the patient in such cases is nervous and responsible for movement and sensation.” She confirmed, “The treatment is done according to the condition of the patients with certain protocols in order to help him move the affected party, and cooperation between us and the patient is doneIn order to reach better results. ”
Patients talk about their successful experiences with the hospital
Patients in all sections of the Physiotherapy Department of the Arab Bethlehem Association for Rehabilitation expressed their happiness at the level of workers in the department and its equipment, where they explained great satisfaction at the level of the services they received and helped them return to their natural life. In this framework, Aqq Hamid, who works as an employee in the Ministry of Interior in Nablus Governorate, said that it is As a result of his injury to the "Coffee 19" virus at the end of the 12th month of last year, he was entered to the association's hospital, and at the time he was able to move, as he could only move his eyes only. " It has a positive imprint, as his condition improved a lot and became able to move. I was transferred to the rehabilitation department, which caused a big difference to my physical health, thanks to the efforts of the crew that works in an integrated manner, and therefore my condition improved a lot and I became stronger on the movement. Bethlehem to receive treatment for some time and that she was warming the relationship with the therapists who gave her a lot and was able to walk on her feet after a while. The nun Maryam added that the most important thing in the department is her feeling that she is in her home every time she comes to receive physical therapy at the Arab Society Hospital, expressing Her happiness that she served Palestine for many years and that those who provided treatment and served it are Palestinian youths and girls who have extensive experiences in this field.
Source: pnn