Brisbane Rehab offers specialist medical opinion and management for a range of medical problems that benefit from rehabilitation. We have a special interest in the management of musculoskeletal disorders and musculoskeletal pain.

What is rehabilitation?

Who needs rehabilitation?

How is rehabilitation actually performed?

Is rehabilitation useful?

How can I be sure I'm getting the best of care?

What is rehabilitation?

Rehabilitation is simply a process of improving a person's ability to perform meaningful tasks. These tasks are often quite basic. Sitting comfortably, walking, swallowing, toileting, managing distress and anxiety are some examples. Once someone is able to do this his / her quality of life should hopefully, improve.

Who needs rehabilitation?

Conditions covering a broad range of medical conditions benefit from rehabilitation. Brisbane Rehab covers a spectrum of medical problems including:  

• Chronic muscular and joint pain
• Work related injury
• Patients recovering from major surgery including orthopaedic and neurosurgery
• Patients recovering from neurological disease - stroke, Parkinsons Disease and multiple sclerosis, spinal cord and brain injury  
• Patients recovering from amputation
• Other conditions - fibromyalgia, other types of chronic pain, cardiac and pulmonary disease
  

How is rehabilitation actually performed?

This is difficult to answer as the rehabilitation process is always multifaceted and has a different 'recipe' for each problem. As a generalization the rehabilitation process usually involves a component of physical therapy, psychological therapy and education. It is always performed by a team of health professionals. The team usually comprises a core of staff, typically nursing staff, physiotherapy, occupational therapy and medical staff. Some patients however may only need to see one practitioner. Rehabilitation can be performed in hospital (inpatient) or at offices (outpatient).

Is rehabilitation useful?

There is now the highest level of scientific evidence that rehabilitation is useful for a multitude of disorders. Chronic back and neck pain, arthritis, stroke and fibromyalgia are just a few conditions that have been shown to improve with rehabilitation. Patients recovering from major surgery have been shown to have short admissions, better functional improvement and reduced medical complications.

Rehabilitation is simple common sense. It is intuitive that improving exercise tolerance, increasing activity and managing pain will have a beneficial effect on improving a person's quality of life.

How can I be sure I'm getting the best of care?

The principal practitioner Dr Mark Tadros of Brisbane Rehab has postgraduate qualifications from the Australasian Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine (Royal Australasian College of Physicians) and the Faculty of Pain Medicine (Australia and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists).