Fizjoterapia szpitalna po zabiegu strumektomii

The incidence rate of the thyroid gland diseases has been observed to grow at a increasing pace. Thyroid gland diseases occur more often (several times) in women than in men. Unfortunately, in many cases, surgical ablation of the thyroid gland is often the only way of effective treatment. Strumectomy is recommended for patients with gigantic goitre, with goiter giving compression symptoms on neighbouring organs, with goiter containing cold nodules (suspision of malignant neoplasm) or autonomous hyperfunction. It is vital for patients after strumectomy to be mobilized as early as possible after the operation and be subjected to selected procedures of comprehensive rehabilitation. This paper presents physiotherapeutic procedures employed in hospital rehabilitation before and after strumectomy, which the authors recognize as an indispensible element of treatment at surgical wards operating patients with thyroid gland diseases.