Rehabilitation- in Chronic Diseases

Theapeutic Exercise

Rehabilitation includes exercise, emotional support, and lifestyle changes so as to reduce the risk of a disease recurring or developing, such as eating a healthy diet, maintaining a healthy weight, and quitting smoking.

The goals of rehabilitation include establishing a personalized plan that will help you regain your stamina and strength, preventing your condition from getting worse, reducing the risk of future complications, improving your health and quality of life.

The free Rehabilitation programs in the Laboratory of Sports Medicine of the Department of Physical Education and Sports Science of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki are designed to help treat patients suffering from heart disease (angina, coronary heart disease or heart disease) or have had a heart attack. (surgery or angioplasty) or suffer from chronic kidney disease or lung disease or diabetes or other chronic diseases.

The implementation of these programs is largely based on the support of the Municipality of Thessaloniki with which since 2000 are signed annual cooperation agreements, are also signed by other neighboring Municipalities, such as the Municipality of Evosmos.

A multidisciplinary team of trained gymnasts, cardiologists, occupational physiologists, nutritionists and psychologists and social support specialists design individualized therapies and strategies to reintegrate patients into a better quality of life, with better physical fitness and prevention of recurrence to heavier stages and strategies to prevent heart complications and future recurrence of heart attacks (heart attack).