Long term disease management is essential for Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS), a chronic progressive systemic inflammatory disease of the axial skeleton. Extensive information about the disease is a necessary first step. An education program for AS was implemented to improve inpatient medical rehabilitation. In a controlled quasi-experimental multicentric study the efficacy of this program was analysed.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
* complex individual antiinflammatory rehabilitation program during inpatient rehabilitation (physiotherapy, physical therapy, occupational therapy, health-promoting measures and more) and additionally * Patient education 6 x 90 Minutes
* complex individual antiinflammatory rehabilitation program during inpatient * complex individual medical rehabilitation (physiotherapy, physical therapy, occupational therapy, health-promoting measures and more) and additionally * further 6 treatments from available disciplines(e.g. massage, electrotherapy, bath)
Rehazentrum Bad Eilsen
Bad Eilsen, Lower Saxony, Germany
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