Department of Physiotherapy and rehabilitation @ Ospedale Galeazzi - Sant'Ambrogio
The Unit provides assistance to patients in functional recovery after surgery on the musculoskeletal system through evaluation, medical therapy, and rehabilitative therapy.
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Conditions we take care of at this Department
Inpatient Rehabilitation
The clinical-functional evaluation by the physician at the time of admission of the patient leads to the drafting of an individual rehabilitation plan containing the medical and rehabilitation prescriptions. Through the application of orthopaedic, neuromotor, manual and respiratory rehabilitation techniques, the goal is to achieve the patient's highest health potential in terms of motor and relational autonomy. Main Pathologies Treated:
- Hip arthroplasty
- Knee arthroplasty.
Outpatient Medical Activity
The Unit offers two types of outpatient medical services:
- Visits for patients suffering from orthopaedic, neurological and rheumatological diseases and a drafting of a rehabilitation projections aimed at functional recovery of the patient through the application of the most modern rehabilitative techniques and instrumental therapies
- Visits for prescription of aids and orthoses.
Outpatient Physiotherapy
The Unit offers two types of outpatient physiotherapeutic services:
- Outpatient sessions of single or group kinesitherapy
- Instrumental therapy
- Main Pathologies Treated:
- Hip and knee prostheses
- Capsule-ligament reconstruction of the knee
- Rotator cuff repair
- Rachialgia.
Shockwave Clinic
Treatments are performed by medical personnel with an electromagnetic device with an integrated ultrasound guidance. The main pathologies treated at the Unit are calcific or non-calcific insertional tendinopathies and plantar fasciitis.
Notable advanced technological equipment
- Biomechanical Lab
Meet our team
Head physician
Catia Pelosi
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The new hospital brings together in a single facility Istituto Ortopedico Galeazzi, the first hospital for orthopaedic admissions that performs 75% of all revision orthopaedic surgeries in Italy, and Istituto Clinico Sant'Ambrogio, example of healthcare excellence for its cardiovascular unit as well as for the diagnosis and treatment of obesity.
The new Ospedale Galeazzi - Sant’Ambrogio (OGSA), accredited by the Italian National Healthcare System (SSN), and given an IRCCS status (Scientific Institute for Research, Hospitalization and Healthcare) by the Italian Ministry of Health for the study of the locomotor system disorders, it is a center of excellence for clinical and pre-clinical biomedical research, and it is well-known for its teaching activity as a learning site for the Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery in agreement with the University of Milan.
As former Istituto Ortopedico Galeazzi, it is known for its achievements in the field of sports medicine and is now home for RE.GA.IN, a regenerative medicine center for the treatment of cartilage and tendon pathologies.
Since 2007, the Institute has become a member of the ISOC (International Society of Orthopaedic Centers), recognized as one of the 19 institutes of excellence in the field of orthopaedics representing 16 countries.
Former Istituto Clinico Sant'Ambrogio adds to the new OGSA its healthcare excellence in treatment of cardiovascular pathologies with over 500 interventions of cardiac surgery and 2,500 interventional cardiology procedures per year thus becoming among the first Italian centers for cardiovascular treatments. The Cardiothoracic Center represents a point of excellence in mini-invasive cardiac surgery and in the percutaneous aortic valve replacement. Additionally, former Istituto Clinico Sant'Ambrogio is in the first place among the Lombardy hospitals for the treatment of acute myocardial infarction.
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