The Doctor José Molina Orosa Hospital incorporates speech therapy provision into its service portfolio, with the hiring of two professionals who are integrated into the staff of the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation service in order to care for both hospital and outpatient patients.
The speech therapists, recently incorporated into the Service, are responsible for the management of communication and swallowing disorders derived from neurological pathologies such as stroke, ALS, cerebrovascular accidents or neurodegenerative diseases. In addition, they care for patients with dysphonia, who are mainly referred from Otolaryngology. In both cases, these are alterations that can cause great disability in the patient and that can now be treated from the initial moment.
The Phoniatric-Speech Therapy provision, within the rehabilitation service of Molina Orosa, presents an important advantage for patients since from now on they will no longer have to travel to other centers as had been usual. The professionals' consultation takes place in the afternoon and they attend an average daily of more than 20 patients.
The incorporation of two speech therapists completes the Hospital's Rehabilitation service. This is a multidisciplinary service composed of specialist doctors in Rehabilitation, physiotherapists, occupational therapists and assistants who treat a wide range of neurological, orthopedic or traumatological pathologies. These professionals address different therapeutic processes through rehabilitation, exercise, physiotherapy that helps the patient to improve and recover lost functionality.
The head of the Rehabilitation service, Dr. Ricardo Diez, values "very positively" the incorporation of these professionals into the staff since "it satisfies a demand raised jointly by this service and by the Otorhinolaryngology, Pediatrics and Neurology Section services."
Rehabilitation specialists have attended a total of 7,609 consultations from January to August, while the service's physiotherapists have carried out almost 49,000 sessions with 1,960 patients and in occupational therapy, with 79 patients they have addressed more than 2,400 sessions.
