Digestive Rehabilitation

The Department of Gastroenterology and Rehabilitation focuses on the comprehensive management of patients with chronic liver disease, pancreatitis in the recovery phase, inflammatory bowel disease in remission, functional gastrointestinal disorders, post-gastrectomy patients, and those with impaired digestive function after cancer treatment. Emphasis is placed on nutritional support, exercise and physical recovery, swallowing and gastrointestinal motility training, bowel function management, pain and fatigue intervention, and management of comorbidities such as anxiety and depression. For patients with cirrhosis and sarcopenia, chronic pancreatitis with exocrine insufficiency, those in the adaptation phase after bowel resection, and those in long-term remission of inflammatory bowel disease, rehabilitation can help improve physical fitness, nutritional status, and quality of life, but this must be based on stable control of the primary disease. If gastrointestinal bleeding, intestinal obstruction, active inflammation, significant ascites, worsening jaundice, or suspected cancer recurrence occurs, priority should be given to evaluation by a gastroenterologist. During treatment, attention must be paid to the interaction between medications and nutritional supplements, as well as the impact of exercise prescriptions on complications such as portal hypertension, anemia, and osteoporosis.