REHABILITATION CLINIC ADELHEID (40 minutes from Zurich)

Each disease is as individual, as the man or woman him or herself. Nevertheless, all of our ladies and gents patients have a common desire to get back by their usual life as soon as possible.

As a patient, you will find everything that you desire in Adelheid clinic on the road to convalescence. Calmness and security and also an extensive competence of the medical staff in all areas of modern aftertreatment.

What includes a modern concept of rehabilitation? It is a correct treatment of patients, care, and medical assistance allowing a fast return to habitual way of life. For this purpose, we work under a principle of interbranch coordination of three areas of expertise: medicine, care, and therapy in Adelheid clinic make a harmonious whole. Constant data exchange in regular reports, current measurement of aftertreatment progress by means of standardized instruments, as well as an extensive documentation - all this promotes success.

For us the main task in caring for patients is the reduction of their dependence on the assistance of medical personnel so that they could manage their daily life by their own strength as soon as possible. Our experts have special education and take continuous professional skill and retraining improvement courses. We are guided by the newest developments and data in care and aftertreatments. By means of measuring instruments especially developed there are established and considered limits of power for aftertreatment in care and therapeutic programs. Successful process of aftertreatment assumes, that both patients, and medical personnel promote an active aftertreatment.

Medical Service

Medical service means competent support of our patients from the date of their arrival to the clinic till the date when they leave us again.

Head physician, Doctor of Medical Sciences Ralphe Satter, physician-expert of FMH in health servicing of patients for treatment of internal organs, and Head physician, doctor of medical sciences Thomas Langenegger, doctor-expert of FMH on Rehabilitation and Rheumatology.

On request external medical consultations on cardiology, pulmonology, orthopedics, neurology are convened.

Together with this, a competent consulting service assists our patients also. Consultations on diet nutrition, foodstuffs are held on a regular basis.

In diagnostics center we have at our disposal all that is required for diagnosing conditions of heart, lungs, carrying out of all possible laboratory tests, roentgen as well as ultrasound. Thanks to the precise diagnosis and optimum drug support aftertreatment is held in an optimum way.

Therapeutic Services

Our patients wish to be healthy and wish to come back in the habitual rhythm of life as soon as possible.

Professional integral therapy brings an essential contribution here.

Integral therapy means that within the limits of regular data interchange various sorts of therapy are held: physiotherapy and ergo therapy, laliatry, (Neuro-) psychotherapy.

In Adelheid clinic we offer a number of modern therapeutic programs. So, for example Medical Training Therapy (MTT) where patients may pass an individually developed muscular constructive training.

Within the limits of physiotherapy patients are assisted to restore moving functions.

When ergo therapy is held patients study and restore basic moves of everyday lives.

Aftertreatment. What is the target audience?

According to our interbranch aftertreatment program with the help of optimum health services, care and modern therapeutic forms, we accept patients with the following diseases:

• Diseases of the motion apparatus
• Damages of the central nervous system
• Patients with lung diseases