Regain strength after cancer treatment

Krafttraining zur Stärkung der Muskulatur

Who would benefit from Oncology Rehabilitation?

The Oncology Rehabilitation is aimed at patients with cancer who completed the cancer treatment and want to regain strength, physical functioning, and independence.

  • Colorectal carcinomas
  • Breast cancer
  • Gynaecological tumours
  • Testicular tumour
  • Lymphoma
  • Lung carcinomas
  • Condition after stem cell therapy
  • Other types of tumour
Reha nach Krebs

Aims

The aim of Oncology Rehabilitation is to improve quality of life for cancer patients through:

  • treating and managing tumour-associated complications and consequential symptoms such as limited mobility, scar pain, nervous limitation, etc.
  • strengthening physical performance
  • helping patients to cope with and eventually to defeat tumour-associated psychological problems such as anxiety or depression
  • optimising pain therapy
  • providing patients with dietary advice tailored to the type of tumour
  • improving existing resources

Programme

  1. Medical entry examination
  2. Development of an individual treatment programme
    • Medical training therapy and gymnastics
    • Indication-specific theoretical training and lectures
    • Nutritional counselling
    • Psychology
    • Occupational therapy including art therapy
    • Counselling by a social worker
  3. Regular medical process examination
  4. Social and vocational counselling
Pflegerische Betreuung der Patienten

Application form

Humanomed Center Althofen has billing contracts with the following social insurance companies in Austria: Pensionsversicherungsanstalt (PVA), SVS, BVAEB and ÖGK.

Your doctor submits the completed application form to your insurance company in order to get the treatment costs covered.

You will be notified by your insurance company via mail when your application has been approved. Hence, we will send you the date of stay in our facility.

Download your application form hiere:

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Our Team

Elisabeth Isak
Head of Onkology Rehabilitation, Doctor of internal medicine, specialisation in hematology-oncology

Astrid Faupl, MD
Doctor of internal medicine

Magdalena Hribernik, MD
Doctor of internal medicine

 

Head of therapy
Gudrun Aichern

Psychology
Bernhard Putzinger
Mirjam Walthart
Jeanine Olsacher

Head of nursing staff
Claudia Blasnig

Head nurse
Elfriede Seidl

Social worker
Gisela Spendier, BA

Dietitian
Barbara Felsberger
Johanna Obendrauf, BSc
Margaretha Unterhuber

Speech therapist
Daniela Luckinger