Rehabilitation Services
REHABILITATION SERVICES: Cancer and its treatments have various effects on patients’ physical and functional capacity. Physical and occupational therapy is imperative to the successful rehabilitation process in cancer patients. Through caring management and application of skilled interventions, both have a vital role in helping patients regain their independence, functional capacity and enhance quality of life.
Staff and Services
Currently, we have a team of 6 physical therapists and 1 occupational therapist. A highly qualified rehabilitation medicine physician has joined our team and supervises our activities. The unit offers their services to both inpatients and outpatients. Over 8000 sessions are delivered annually. Our rehabilitation Unit is divided to two parts;
Physical and Occupational Therapy
Physical therapy helps patients by restoring function, improving mobility, relieving pain and preventing or limiting physical disabilities in patients suffering from injury or disease. The goal is to restore, maintain, and promote overall fitness and health.
Our Physical Therapy Unit includes :
Occupational therapy is the science and art of dealing with physical, mental and psychiatric dysfunction. Patients are trained to reach optimal independent levels in activities of daily living, work skill, and leisure. It involves the therapeutic use of purposeful activities in different performance areas such as: self care, work and leisure and aims to increase independent function, enhance development and prevent disabilities as much as possible. Occupational therapy helps patients fulfill their roles and responsibilities; it deals with patients on an individual level based on his/her needs, goals and desires. OT also helps parents, families, friends and teachers to understand and gain the necessary skills to support the patient enhance independency.
Why is our service unique?
The following services are provided at KHCC:
Rehabilitation medicine clinic: Held weekly to assess patient needs to rehabilitation services and follow up patients who are already engaged in a rehabilitation program.
Vision rehabilitation: A physical therapist and an occupational therapist are responsible for following up patients with visual impairments. This group of patients has special challenges; some have little vision preserved, while others are completely blind. We attempt to train those patients to use their remaining visual abilities and enhance them, using their sensations, power and coordination with little or no vision. This helps those patients reintegrate in society and maximize use of their present skills and abilities. The process is very critical for young patients whose brain development depends on their exposure to stimulation from outside environments. The program is taking its first steps, collaborating with centers inside and outside Jordan to improve the level of provided care.
Orthopedic Team: Our unit is a vital part of the orthopedic team providing rehabilitation services to patients who underwent various types of orthopedic surgeries moreover our unit is a pioneer in Limb Salvage surgeries rehabilitation.
Breast Cancer Education Clinic: Held weekly to educate patients who underwent breast surgeries about possible complications and how to prevent them helping patients return to their normal lives as soon as possible.
Lymphedema Program: This program has been launched to help patients cope with this very serious problem especially patients who underwent breast surgeries.
Pain Management Program: Our unit participates in the pain management program to help patients who suffers from different types of pain, minimizing the use of pain relief drugs.
Home Care Team: Physical therapy services are provided at home to hospice and palliative patients who cannot attend their sessions in the center.
Training programs: As a part of the Continuous Medical Education activities we share in “General Nursing Orientation” GNO lectures, educating nursing staff about safe patients handling and correct body mechanics, moreover we provide training programs for participants from outside the center.
