The Vithas Virgen del Mar Hospital launches a rehabilitation and child orthopedics unit.

-The equipment is formed by a rehabilitation physician and five physiotherapists

– this service focuses on attention to children with or without disabilities, in the diagnosis of Orthopedic abnormalities in well-child visits and attention to the seized

-scoliosis, flat feet, knees, congenital muscular torticollis, infant, adductor metatarsus positional plagiocephaly … are some of the diseases that now can be treated in this new unit

Almeria, 2013 February.- El Hospital Vithas Virgen del Mar this year 2013 expands its services and launches rehabilitation and child orthopedics unit. With 800 m2 located in the new building, this service focuses on attention to children (with or without disabilities), in the diagnosis and treatment of Orthopedic abnormalities in well-child visits.

In this unit is also attend the patients in their subsequent recovery process. In fact, the absence of rehabilitation can assume not functional in cases of neurological recovery, not achieve a psychomotor development in cases of children with neurologic disease, joint stiffness or chronic pain, among other pathologies. For this reason, the Vithas Virgen del Mar Hospital reinforces an area that provides greater security to the child and his family, to be able to complete its recovery under the supervision of a team of five physiotherapists and rehabilitation physician with extensive experience.

The rehabilitation of the children

The child Physiatrist is a rehabilitation and physical medicine specialist trained for detection, diagnosis and treatment of the motor impairment disabling, from the birth of the child until the end of their growth. Some of the children’s diseases that can be treated from now on this new service of the almerian hospital are: scoliosis, flat feet, knees, congenital muscular torticollis, infant, metatarsus adductus positional plagiocephaly … among others.

The Vithas Virgen del Mar Hospital performs in this new unit a rigorous process of assessment of children with disabilities which consists of:

-completion of an initial assessment in children diagnosed from a picture specific syndromic (psychomotor retardation, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome(, syndrome Angelman, muscular dystrophy, etc.), and/or neurological risk to determine stage of development in the first months of life and anticipate complications that may arise. The objective of this approach is to teach parents the first measures to take on an outpatient basis as they can be the stimulation (stimulation of the giro, the head, the dump-help control, how to play with them, etc.)

-Prevention of motor fundamental limitations, referred to global, motor and cognitive stimulation of children with problems through the detection, diagnosis and specific and early treatment of illnesses or disabling motor impairment. Once established and valued motor deficits, compensatory measures in the field of orthopedics, adaptation of the environment, incorporating technologies, etc. can be indicated

-To know the natural history of orthopaedic and neuro-motor development to carry out prevention and general and specific treatment of Orthopedic deformities both infant and pre-school and school. Natural history is the evolution of a process without medical intervention and know it allows us to make decisions at the right time, that will be as soon as possible in the case of a pathology; or you can let it take its course in physiological processes.

Highlights of this section, the various ortesicas measures to be used individually in each child in alterations as frequent as scoliosis, flat feet, knees knock, etc.

-Assessment and prognosis of the functional limitations caused by motor impairments. This assessment shows the type of limitation that the patient suffers. Motor deficits are variable and can cause different types of constraints. The rehabilitation physician assesses the limitation and predicts the disability that this will produce.
-Indication and implementation of general and specific medical treatment of physical medicine and rehabilitation: physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, prescription of orthosis … coordination of the large team of therapists need to serve for the multidisciplinary treatment of the child, which can intervene doctors from areas such as Pediatrics, Neurology, neurosurgery, Traumatology, digestive apparatus, Otorhinolaryngology

-Knowledge and information on diseases and syndromes, as well as the specific features of each of them to be able inform parents and other professionals involved

on Hospital Vithas Virgin of the sea of Almeria

last November arose in Almeria Vithas, third hospital group private of Spain to which belongs the Virgen del Mar Hospital. In this presentation, the Manager of the hospital, just Jiménez Bastida, noted that from 2002 to 2012 hospital has tripled almost billing, doubled the number of direct jobs, has created ten new healthcare units and has invested more than 13 million euros. All this with the aim, according to Jimenez Bastida, of maintain the leadership in our sphere of influence ”. The Director of the hospital also said that throughout the year 2011 the hospital attended to more than 145,000 people and more than 6,500 interventions were carried out.

This year 2013 hospital will offer new services through the expansion of its facilities, which have involved an investment of 4 million euros. These include maxillofacial surgery and implantology unit and the unit of podiatry. The new 5,000 m2 building increases maternal child and short hospitalization area and average stay, as well as locate the external consultations. From the year 2014 the hospital will perform new investments amounting to 2.5 million euros.

The investments planned for the Virgen del Mar Hospital thus constitute a good example of the commitment of Vithas to improve health benefits for the benefit of the community. In this sense, the Hospital will launch specialized interdisciplinary units that can be coordinated with those of the rest of the Group hospitals, allow Vithas offer comprehensive and global responses that anticipate the needs of a constantly evolving society.

Currently, the Vithas Virgen del Mar Hospital offers patients: 76 beds for hospitalization, 5 operating theatres and 5 jobs ICU. Works with the main national and international insurance companies and boasts the following among other specialties: surgery, cardiology, Traumatology, Gynecology, hematology, hemodialysis, Endocrinology and nutrition, general medicine and intensive, internal medicine and Nuclear, medical oncology and Alergology.