Medical Rehabilitation in Daily Practice

Data

Official data in SubjectManager for the following academic year: 2025-2026

Topic

Medical rehabilitation deals with the specific recovery from a serious illness, such as accidents, fractures, strokes, heart attacks or conditions caused by chronic neurological, rheumatic diseases or addictions. With the help of a multidisciplinary team, it aims to return patients to their daily activities, work and quality of life using medical and physiotherapeutic methods, medicines and appliances.

Lectures

• 1.

  1. Special features of medical rehabilitation (multi-disciplinarity, functional approach. Medical rehabilitation after spine injury. Living in wheelchair.

  - Cserháti Péter
• 2. 2. Pediatric rehabilitation - Aszmann Mária
• 3. 3. Interventions in rehabilitation I. (robot mediated treatment, neuromodulation and stimulation, (prescription of medical aids). Dr. Kovács Noémi - Geider-Kovács Noémi
• 4. 5. Rehabilitation of patients post traumatic injury or ortopedic surgery - Fonay Valér
• 5.

  5. Demonstration: rehabilitation of patients with dysmyelia and post amputation

  - Sarlósné Varjú Cecília
• 6. 6. Assessment of the quality of life. Accessible environment, prevention of immobilization. Demostration: rehabilitation of patients with degenerative and inflammatory peripheral joint diseases. - Sarlósné Varjú Cecília

Practices

• 1. 2. Interventions in rehabilitation I. (physico-physiotherapy, sport therapy, hydrotherapy, occupational therapy, accessible environment, prevention of immobilization).Dr. Varjú Cecília - Sarlósné Varjú Cecília
• 2. Demonstration: rehabilitation of patients with dysmyelia and post amputation. Dr. Varjú Cecília - Sarlósné Varjú Cecília
• 3.

  Post-stroke rehabilitation in daily practice. Physical, cognitive and other therapies used in stroke rehabilitation

  - Geider-Kovács Noémi
• 4. 3. Demonstration: rehabilitation of patients with addiction. - Kárpáti Tamás Gergely
• 5. Physiology of early rehabilitation of patients with acute cardiologic diseases, in peri-operative conditions. Demonstration: rehabilitation of patients with cardiologic diseases. Dr. Nyárfás Géza - Sarlósné Varjú Cecília
• 6. Special points in rehabilitation for elderly patients. Dr. Birkás Gyöngyvér - Birkás Gyöngyvér

Seminars

Reading material

Obligatory literature

We have short summaries of the presentations, available on Potepedia

Literature developed by the Department

http://aok.pte.hu/en/egyseg/index/3015

Notes

We have short summaries of the presentations, available on Potepedia

Recommended literature

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Secrets, Mosby Elservier, Philadelphia USA, 2012

Conditions for acceptance of the semester

Achieving more than 60% correct answers in a test -exam in the last session of the course.

Mid-term exams

20-question test on the last session of the course

Making up for missed classes

As agreed with the course director.

Exam topics/questions

1. Rehabilitation post traumatic injury or ortopedic surgery

2. Different types of the physical therapy. Home nursing aids

3. Rehabilitation post severe brain injury and stroke

4. Rehabilitation of children with cerebral paresis

5. Cardiac rehabilitation programs after a heart attack

7. The practice of treating addictions

Examiners

Instructor / tutor of practices and seminars

• Aszmann Mária
• Birkás Gyöngyvér
• Cserháti Péter
• Fonay Valér
• Geider-Kovács Noémi
• Kárpáti Tamás Gergely
• Nyárfás Géza
• Sarlósné Varjú Cecília