Additional Services for Your Recovery Period

Most medical tourists, up to 80 per cent, seek additional services during their recovery period. After all, it’s a great opportunity to get pampered with spa services or catch up on some dentistry works while they are here. It is also time- and cost-effective things to do for patients’ companions to get services when time permits. They also make the prospect of accompanying someone on a medical trip much more attractive.

Thai spas have earned its place as a superior and unique oriental experience that offers gentle treatments from the ancient wisdoms. The Thai massages and Thai hospitality, coupled with herbal drinks, herbs, and Thai health foods amidst the serene seaside or forest atmospheres, are considered the very best you can get.

Physical Therapy in Thailand offers the following specialties:

1.    Cardiopulmonary – physical therapists work with patients with cardiopulmonary problems and those who have undergone surgery with the purposes to improve endurance and functional independence, thereby improve the patients’ lives, detoxify the lungs and perform treatments on the patients. Patients with cystic fibrosis (infections in the respiratory tract), patients with cardiac disorders or failure, patients who have undergone CABG procedure, patients with COPD and pulmonary fibrosis are some of the people who will greatly benefit from the cardiopulmonary physical therapy.

2.    Geriatric – geriatric physical therapy covers a broad range of work and relates to all age groups, with particular focus on the elderly who may begin to suffer from various degenerative conditions. Such conditions may include arthritis, osteoporosis, cancer, Alzheimer, hip hemiarthroplasty, disorientation, fecal and urinary incontinence. Geriatric therapies will address these conditions with special programs to promote mobility, relief pains, and enhance the bodily capacity.

3.    Neurological therapy – This branch of physical therapy address individual’s conditions in the neurological aspects. Patients with Alzheimer, brain concussion, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, strokes, and paralysis will receive therapeutic treatments to regain the lost functionality.

4.    Orthopedic – Therapists will diagnose and plan the treatment and restorative procedures for orthopedic disorders or injuries, including those resulting from operations. The therapists typically work at the outpatient division to treat injuries and traumas from accidents with heat/cold treatments, electro acupuncture, iontophoresis, ultrasound, and other procedures for diagnosis and to guide treatments such as muscle retraining. Patients who suffer from injury or disease affecting the muscles, bones, ligaments, or tendons of the body may benefit from the work of physical therapist specialized in orthopedics.

5.    Pediatric - Pediatric physical therapy can be used for early detection of health problems. It uses various modalities to treat disorders in children. The therapists are specialized in the diagnosis, treatment, and management of infants, children, and adolescents with a variety of congenital, developmental, neuromuscular, skeletal, or acquired disorders/diseases. The treatment emphasize in improving gross and fine motor skills, balance and coordination, strength and endurance, and cognitive and sensory processing/integration. Children with developmental delays, cerebral palsy, spina bifida, or torticollis may benefit from pediatric physical therapy.

Hair Transplantation

Thailand possesses some of the best specialists in this area. Medical tourists considering having hair transplantation should be aware of the following information:

1.    Hair transplantation will give you a refreshed, better personality. However, the procedure serves to restore the balding areas to a certain extent and not completely. The results may not be as expected entirely.

2.    The procedure works well if a patient has healthy hair on the back and sides of the head, from where the hair follicles are harvested. Most male balding patterns allow this to be done.

3.    The transplantation can be done using many different techniques, including Hair Grafting whereby small follicles of hairs are harvested individually, Hair Flaps whereby strips of scalps are moved from the sides and back of the head to the balding areas, and Tissue Expander, whereby the healthy areas are expanded. The latter two are much faster, but require complex procedures.

4.    No single solution is best for all. The procedures must be considered for individual cases. In some cases a combination of two procedures may be used to achieve the most effective and natural result.

5.    Patients should stop smoking for at least 2 weeks before surgery. Some medications, including Aspirin or Monoxides, usually taken to stimulate hair roots, are prohibited as they may cause excessive bleeding during surgery.

6.    Hair transplantation can be carried out using local anesthetics. General anesthesia, and thus fasting, is not necessary. The procedures take 3-6 hours, and the patients do not need to be admitted to the hospital. Doctors will start with the administration of local anesthetics at the posterior hairline to harvest follicles of 3-5 or 1-2 hair roots