Early rehabilitation of patients under martial law
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.32782/2077-6594/2025.1/10Keywords:
early rehabilitation, martial lawAbstract
Purpose: Determine the place of early rehabilitation in the provision of medical care under martial law. Мaterials and methods: To implement the research objective, the PubMed, Scopus, Cochrane and PEDro (Physiotherapy Evidence Database) databases were analyzed. Research methods: structural and logical analysis. Results. The features and main problems related to the provision of early rehabilitation in the conditions of emergency medical care are presented. Traumatic injuries sustained in martial law can cause devastating and long-lasting physical and psychological impairments, requiring quality early and specialized rehabilitation interventions and long-term follow-up to reduce complications and optimize patients' functioning and quality of life. Conclusions. In the conditions of martial law, early rehabilitation is an important component of clinical care and its provision from the beginning of the event and is important to reduce the significant number of people with life limitations after the surge of traumatic injuries and exacerbation of chronic diseases as a result of insufficient access to early rehabilitation opportunities for patients.
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