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Fixing body damage.
Rehabilitation centres are filled with injuries caused by bad postures at the computer. Modern life also increases the number of persons with drug addictions who turn to detoxification centres for help.
Our western way of life disadjusts our bodies. Offices and computers fill rehabilitation centres for back complaints with persons suffering from painful contractions. In the same centres tattered bodies due to traffic accidents are recomposed. Drug addiction is much more prominent in developed countries, which are forced to open detoxification centres to save lives.
The statistics reveal that both of these health problems are more widely extended in countries with higher purchasing power. The comforts of modern life lead the muscles that support our skeleton to become more relaxed, which is why office work and long working hours at the computer end up causing muscle contractions. The stress of our hectic western way of life does the rest.
Body rehabilitation
People who don't go to a gym to relax and strengthen their muscles tend to end up in the hands of masseurs or physiotherapists. Small rehabilitation centres run by 'physios' are multiplying. In Spain, there are nearly 2,700 of these centres, which treat contractions, strengthen muscles and calm pain due to illnesses, particularly rheumatologic complaints.
Repairing the damages caused by accidents is a tall order. In Spain, more than 2,000 person lose their lives every year as a result of traffic accidents; the number of those wounded exceeds the tragic figure of 100,000 persons. Cerebrovascular accidents, such as ictuses and strokes, raise the figure drastically. In Spain, there are more than 300,000 patients undergoing traumatological rehabilitation or for damages of neurological origin.
Prestigious centres
Heart, cancer and road are the famous three leading causes of death in developed countries. The persons who survive these three big killers to be subsequently recomposed in rehabilitation centres go through an ordeal that is seldom in the public eye. Some of them have to learn to walk or speak and others are left quadriplegic.
These patients are treated in the rehabilitation centres of large hospitals. The Barcelona hospital, Hospital Quirón, and the clinic, Clínica Universitaria de Navarra, are recognised for being extremely well equipped, both technically and professionally. The Quirón hospital is famous for treating sportsmen and women.
Germany excels in physical rehabilitation. Thus, we would be tempted to say that our first three 'tops' are German, were it not for the fact that the first, the Instituto Guttman, is located in Barcelona, although established there by a German. This institute rehabilitates persons with medullary lesions, due to acquired brain damage or another serious neurological disability. The Red Menni, which is Spanish, has excellent installations for the rehabilitation of persons with brain damage.
Overcoming dependencies
The data on drug addiction is even more tragic. In Spain, there are at least 1.7 million habitual drug addicts. The profile of the drug addict is a young man aged between 32 and 36, sick and unemployed. However, the problem is extending, especially among the younger ones and women. Socially integrated drug addicts are not accounted for, although their numbers are increasing at a faster pace than among the socially excluded.
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Published in Health and Wellbeing by Susana Aretio on 08/03/2010
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