Current issues in gastroeneterologic rehabilitation

In Hungary gastroenteric diseases' rehabilitation, which is one of the youngest branch of medical rehabilitation, has grown out of traditional, sanatorial care from the 70s. Its main feature that it is based on a biopsychosocial attitude towards patients as a team-work. Though it comprises traditional, medical diagnosis and treatment, medicine and medical technology are not the primary resources of gastroenteric diseases rehabilitation: it is mainly built on a friendly and co-operating relations with the patients, which helps doctors to exert their mental and intellectual influence promoting their patients recovery. Therefore, gastroenteric diseases' rehabilitation can be sharply separated from active treatment and care. The article gives full details of the possible methods of gastroenteric diseases' rehabilitation, such as diagnosis, medicinal treatment, psychotherapy, dietotherapy, physiotherapy and regimen guidance. In addition, it is emphasized that under sanatorial circumstances the effects of rehabilitation, especially of regimen guidance multiplies. Furthermore it gives numerical data about the present situation of gastroenteric diseases' rehabilitation in Hungary. Considering the data gained from the special rehabilitation hospital located in Visegrád, the article touches upon the illnesses calling for this kind of rehabilitative treatment not passing over the fact of multimorbidity, especially important in rehabilitation.