Shyama Udeshika

27.08.2012

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              Rehabilitation Hospital-Ragama

Ragama rehabilitation centre is the largest hospital in Sri Lanka which provides rehabilitation care. Patients are referred from hospitals after acute care or appropriate referral from a hospital OPD or a GP. Any doctor who has gone through the patient can write referral to the consultants. But direct transfers are not accepted. Also vegetative patients and patients without care givers are not accepted.At present there are 2 consultants,12 medical officers with other staff.

'REHABILITATION' is the process of restoring normal function of life after a disease or trauma.They provide medical rehabilitation to                                                                            

• spinal injury patients after acute management due to road traffic accident, fallen from tree, tuberculosis, cancer and transverse myelitis.
• congenital abnormalities such as cerebral palsy
• any rhumatological disorders like athritis
• rehabilitation of amputee.                                                                                             

  There are departments of                                                                                                          

• Physiotherapy
• Occupational therapy
• Work shops of making prosthesis and orthosis
• SLSPO- Sri Lanka School of Prosthetics and Orthotics
• Vocational rehabilitation centre

                                                                                                                                                        During Physiotherapy they are trained to maintain balance, posture, and skills for wheel chair. Here they given excises to reduce the contractures and to increase the range of movement of joint.As well as strengthening excises for functioning muscles.                                                                                                              

Occupational therapy  is to improve hand function and fine motor activity by strengthening hand muscles. Aims of this is to achieve domestic, vocational, and social independence, to increase quality of life.They are trained how to use aids and adaptations (products designed for the patient according to the disability.

                                                 

                                                                                               

                                                                                                 

                                                          

                                          

Wheel chair work shop supplies wheel chairs according to the width, height, physical abilities, environment and occupation of the patient.

                                                    

Sri Lanka School for Prosthetics and Orthotics is the trainig centre for prosthetics and orthotics. Students are taught to make and fit prosthesis (artificial limbs) and orthosis (braces) to international standards. The course consist of two year practical and academic trainig with one year clinical practice.

                     

Aim of Vocational Rehabilitation is to make disable persons are more productive. Here they are trained to sewing,computing, and handy crafts.