Day clinic

KLINIKEN SCHMIEDER

Day Clinic Stuttgart

In our day clinic, patients receive all-day outpatient neurological rehabilitation in phase NRP-M. The advantage of day clinic rehabilitation is that it is embedded in the home environment. After their all-day outpatient rehabilitation from Monday to Friday, the patients return to their usual environment in the evening.

The day clinic is conveniently located in the centre of Stuttgart at the Schwabstraße S-Bahn station and can be reached with all S-Bahn lines. It was founded in 1995. At that time, the concept of a day clinic was developed together with the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Social Affairs. Since then, the Kliniken Schmieder Stuttgart has been a role model for outpatient rehabilitation. This is because the clinic enables intensive rehabilitation near the patient’s home and social environment.

Structure

• 55 patients can be treated simultaneously
• Multi-professional rehabilitation team (rehab care, neuropsychology, speech therapy, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, dietary advice)
• Social counseling under medical supervision
• Cafeteria
• Transport services for patients
• Cooperation with outpatient therapy centre at Kliniken Schmieder

Therapy Goals

• Reintegration into work and occupation
• Regaining independence in the home environment

Diagnostics

• EEG
• Evoked Potentials
• ECG, long-term ECG, and long-term blood pressure measurement

Indications

• Stroke/cerebral haemorrhage
• Traumatic diseases of the central and peripheral nervous system
• Tumors of the brain and spinal cord
• Multiple sclerosis, meningitis, encephalitis, and other inflammatory and immunological diseases of the central and peripheral nervous system
• Degenerative processes of the nervous system
• Non-progressive dementia syndromes

Range of therapy

• Medical therapy, including drug treatment
• Continuation of treatment of co-morbidities
• Neuropsychological exercise training
• Relaxation therapy
• Occupational therapy
• Speech therapy (treatment of language, speech, and swallowing disorders)
• Physical therapy
• Rehabilitation – nursing services
• Health information and training, dietary counselling
• Sociotherapeutic care, e.g., partnership and family counselling

Treatment concept

• Definition and constant review of the treatment steps
• Training of the impaired functions with the aim of improvement
• Compensation for lost functions by practising alternative strategies
• Adaptation to the remaining functioning capacity
• Training in health-promoting behaviours
• Daily independent application of what has been learned in everyday life at home
• Advice on necessary adjustments at home or work
• Involvement of relatives in the process
• Preparation and support for professional reintegration