Revere Health Blog

Physical medicine and rehabilitation play a significant role in restoring your body to its optimal form. It helps you to recover if you have undergone an injury or are experiencing physical limitations because of old age. It would help if you visited a professional physical therapist for an optimal recovery plan so the rehabilitation process does not take longer than usual. However, the rehabilitation process takes time, depending on the severity of the disease or the injury caused. What are the Four Stages of Physical Rehabilitation? Recovery Therapists help you control the acute pain and persistent swelling in this stage. It is the most crucial stage, and the rehabilitation can take time. The focus of this stage is to help your body heal. It is essential to rest and not let the pain aggravate. Rest, Ice, Compression, and Elevation techniques will also assist during this process. This phase will help your body protect from injury and avert further damage. Repair This physical rehabili...

The relationship between the heart and the lungs is one that keeps us alive. Blood from the heart travels to the lungs, where it collects the vital oxygen needed to power organs and tissues all over the rest of the body. If it weren’t for blood collecting and distributing oxygen, there’d be no point in the lungs storing it in the first place. For babies born with a condition called pulmonary atresia, though, this process is blocked from the start. This birth defect causes problems with the flow of blood to the lungs, and can be a serious medical situation for newborns. Here are some of the facts, symptoms and treatment options for pulmonary atresia. Heart, Lungs and Pulmonary Atresia? To fully understand pulmonary atresia, let’s break down how the heart and lungs work together. The heart splits up responsibilities between its left and right side. Blood leaves the heart from the right side, heading to the lungs to collect oxygen, before it returns to the left side. From there, the left ...