Česky
24.3.2015
Last year, the Rehabilitation Centre of the Beroun Hospital started to participate in a project, undoubtedly unique in the Czech Republic, based on the cooperation between the Beroun Centre and the Neurological Clinic of the 1st Faculty of Medicine of Charles University and the General University Hospital in Prague. "The project focuses on the therapy and mainly rehabilitation of patients with Huntington's chorea, a very serious genetic, progressive neurodegenerative disease," begins the head of the centre, Ondřej Horáček, M.D., Ph.D., explaining that these patients have, among many other difficulties, mainly involuntary movements, as well as impaired stability in standing, worsening of walking, and frequent falls. He then points out that, in addition to the fact that no effective causal therapy is yet available, the necessary attention has not yet been paid to rehabilitation procedures that can be used to influence the above-mentioned symptoms of the disease. "A special rehabilitation programme has been developed with the participation of the staff of the aforementioned neurological clinic and our centre, and patients from the study group are gradually being admitted to us for hospitalisation. After they complete the programme, its effectiveness in terms of affecting abnormal movements, stability and quality of gait will be evaluated," adds MUDr. Horáček. Within the Rehabilitation Centre, rehabilitation physicians, physiotherapists, occupational therapists (in the photo, a view of the centre's occupational therapy workshop), a speech therapist and a prosthetist are involved in the rehabilitation of these patients. The project is supported by a grant from Charles University and the results obtained in the rehabilitation of these patients at the Rehabilitation Hospital Beroun could be useful and practically applicable in the complex therapy at all departments that deal with these patients.
