Post-Surgical Rehab Physiotherapy in Tirana, Albania

• Effective and efficient management of your pain.
• Return to activities of your daily living.
• Strengthening of any weak muscles.
• Stretching muscles that may have become stiff.
• Help you get back at the level you were before your surgery.
• Improve your posture.
• Reclaim your independence.
• Reduce any stress or anxiety that you may have and regain your confidence.
• Mobilization exercises in order to improve circulation and range of motion.
• Elimination of any secretions, improvement of lung volume and prevention of breast infections.

Our physiotherapy center offers a wide range of physical therapeutic plans and procedures that can help you treat and rehabilitate from your healing period and return to your normal life, even if that includes any physical activities or sports. Some of those procedures, include:

• Advice and support through all your recovering stages.
• Reduce pain, swelling and scarring.
• Increase mobility, flexibility, strength, balance and coordination.
• Gaining your independence.
• Returning to your daily activities.
• Help to prevent any complications and compensatory issues.
• Help you return to your recreational activities, sports and peak performance.
• Reduce any cough and breathing problems with chest physiotherapy treatments.

Everyone who has had a surgery or is experiencing any pain, muscle weakness, stiffness, reduced mobility, reduced independence, as well as a low exercise tolerance can benefit from a post-operative rehabilitation therapy. 

A surgery has several advantages for your health but on the other side it can seriously affect your physical and psychological state as well as it might be responsible for your anxiety or frustration problems. Having some physical therapy sessions and having a customized complete exercise program can help you achieve your goals as well as maximize your recovery potential.

• Physiotherapy in the early recovery phase.

This phase starts after you get discharged from your surgery to the healing of your tissues. The pain and swelling are the main aim and focus to be resolved with physiotherapy. The physiotherapists will work with manual therapy in order to restore the motion of your joints and help you walk in an early phase. The exercises that are done in this phase are usually simple and help regain the function of your muscles without disturbing the process of your healing.

• Physiotherapy in strength and range of motion phase.

The second phase starts when your joints get motion and you start relief from pain and swelling. The main focus of this phase is renormalizing the mechanisms and at the same time strengthening your body. Your physical therapist will recommend some hard exercises and he or she will give you several introductory exercises of balance as well as proprioception tasks. In order to restore a full joint range of motion you will also start a challenging manual therapy.

• Physiotherapy in functional restoration phase.

The final stage of your post-surgical rehabilitation physiotherapy starts when you strengthen in a sufficient manner and you are able to have some strong and hard exercises as well as restore your movement independently. Your customized exercise program is created based on your lifestyle and physical demands. Your program should be based on your desired physical goals. The program is different because the person has a different kind of lifestyle and this is why the physical exercise plan should be according to your way of living. In the last phase, your physical therapists should challenge you more and try to keep your balance as well as make you have more proprioception exercises which will be designed especially for your personal needs. 

The FisioCenter Clinic checks all your specific and personal needs and requirements in order to support your post-surgical rehabilitation physiotherapy. The rehabilitation programs have some specific protocols which are adapted as individualized treatments in order to return each patient’s strength and lifestyle quality. The programs have many different choices to make according to your personal goals that you have set in order to resume your daily activities as well as to have a maximum level of lifestyle.

It is important for you to know that every one of you will react to any post-surgical rehabilitation program in a different manner and that every program varies from person to person. Each treatment plan is distinguishable in duration and is individualized according to the type of surgery that you have performed. 

However, our team will try its best in order to provide you the best possible treatment and bring you to your previous physical health or even better, in a short period of time. In the end, you will understand that the length of the treatment as well as the time taken in order to recover totally, is worth all the tiredness.

Your treatment plan is personalized, in line with the latest scientific concepts for your rehabilitation and is designed, implemented and supervised by the Interdisciplinary rehabilitation team.

The duration of a typical treatment session is 45 minutes. However, the duration and frequency of treatment sessions depends on the neurological, functional and general condition of each patient.