Chronic Disease Care and Rehabilitation | Recommended Clinic in Singapore
Recommended Clinic for Chronic Disease Care, physio treatment and management for Stroke, Hypertension, Diabetes and Arthritis and general chronic conditions. Improve your quality of life with exercise.
Overview
What are Chronic Diseases? | Care and Rehabilitation
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), chronic diseases are human health conditions that are persistent, progressively worsening, and have long-lasting effects on the body.
Chronic diseases are mostly caused by:
- Complex causes
- Multiple risk factors
- Long latency periods between time of onset of illness and feeling its effects
- Prolonged illness
- Functional impairment or disability
Most chronic diseases are generally not cured completely, e.g.:
- Life threatening diseases such as heart disease and stroke
- Prolonged diseases that require intensive management, such as diabetes, hypertension and kidney failure
- Chronic degenerative diseases such as arthritis
Recommended Clinic for Chronic Disease Care and Rehabilitation
Our physiotherapists are here to help you. We offer services for those with heart disease, lung disease, stroke, diabetes, hypertension, kidney failure, arthritis and similar conditions. We are a small group of dedicated practitioners with decades of experience providing quality care for Chronic Diseases to patients with a variety of medical conditions.
Contact our clinic in Singapore today to request for our recommended chronic disease care and rehabilitation plan.
Heart & Lung Physio Assessment and Rehabilitation Process
Every session will be conducted on a 1 to 1 basis ensuring full attention and personalisation. The programme consists of at least 12 sessions lasting 1 hour each and it will be conducted at a frequency of once to twice weekly.
The following assessments will be performed on your first session:
- Current physical activity levels and goals
- Risk factor identification
- Joint range of motion
- Upper limb and Lower limb strength
- Balance
- Body composition analysis
- Posture analysis during exercise
- Fitness test
- Waist circumference
After the assessment each individual will receive:
- Detailed body composition analysis report showing results on body fat % and muscle mass
- Advice on reducing risk factors and practical solutions
- Personalised exercise programme with appropriate exercises depending on your health history and goals
- Guidance on weights training to ensure proper techniques of lifting and breathing in order to prevent injuries.
The weekly exercise sessions will consist of 1 hour of guided exercises focusing on increasing endurance and muscle strength. Other exercises will also be prescribed according to assessment findings. Outcome measures assessing strength and aerobic endurance will be done routinely to ensure that you are improving functionally with us.
Frequent Asked Questions about Chronic Disease Rehabilitation
How can Physiotherapy help me with my chronic disease?
Why should I choose Heart & Lung Physio to manage my chronic diseases?
Do you provide group classes for chronic disease rehabilitation?
We provide exercise classes for small groups of 2-3 people. Each session lasts for 1 hour, which includes warm-up and cool-down exercises. You can come with your friends to exercise under the supervision of our trained physiotherapist!
If you are unable to attend our exercise classes during our opening hours (9am – 6pm), special arrangement can be made for you. Please kindly contact us!
Do I qualify for Chronic Disease Rehabilitation?
Chronic Disease Rehabilitation is an important programme for anyone that have any of these chronic diseases/past medical history:
- Stroke
- Other neurological conditions e.g. Parkinson’s disease
- Type 2 Diabetes
- Arthritis
- Osteoporosis/Osteopenia
- Previous falls history, frequent fall history
- Obesity
- Chronic Kidney Disease (including those requiring dialysis)
- High blood/cholesterol levels
- Frail individuals
How we can help
We will start with a physical examination which includes:
Risk factor identification
Assessment of current function and stamina
Body Composition Analysis
With this information, we will create an individualised exercise programme to guide you on the appropriate exercises to do to help you achieve your health goals.