Community Based Rehabilitation

Now a days Community Based Rehabilitation has become very important project for rural disabled persons. Vegesna Foundation has surveying many villages, and extending the help to as many as possible. The disabled are approached at their living place, counseled, and rehabilitated without their coming to the institution. As it is the root approach of the problem, it is the most effective way of service to the disabled.

Rehabilitation

Rehabilitation of the disabled is the most important one. Recognizing this aspect the institution is paying more attention to this process through physiotherapy, surgical corrections, orthotics and prosthetics, counseling, pre and post operative care. The rehabilitation team of the institution has taken up the survey of many villages of Andhra Pradesh for this purpose.

Physiotherapy Department

Vegesna Foundation has provided physiotherapy to all the needy students. Alongwith academic education the therapy also is compulsory and one period of 40 minutes duration is alloted to it. Electrotherapy, Mechano-therapy, Suspension Therapy, Post Operative care to the operated students are taken care of by the rehabilitation team.

Surgical corrections

Alongwith academic education, vocational training, physiotherapy, supply of calipers, the Vegesna Foundation has taken up surgical corrections for the students of the institution with the help of local Hospitals, Social Service Organizations and Heart and Hand for the Handicapped, New York and individual philanthropists. From the year 1993 , the Foundation has completed 200 surgical corrections and has given new life to totally crippled and OH students of the institution.

Yoga

Yoga is one way of physiotherapy for rehabilitation of the students. Most of the crippled students are found to be in need of learning yoga and practice yoga for the complete rehabilitation. The yoga training is being provided by the qualified and well experienced yoga instructor. The breathing exercises and some of the Aasanas are found to be useful to the students.