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National Cancer Institute of Maharagama, Sri Lanka.
 
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Two Government qualified physiotherapists are attached to this department and offers treatment and assessment of patients by means of physiotherapy to pre-post surgical patients who undergo radical oncological surgeries to save their lives and to improve the quality of their lives.

While providing re-habitation of inward and patient who suffer peripheral and central neurological condition, they are provided with home re-habilitation programmes.

This department offers assessment and treatment to the patients who have 
 
postural defects with the help of postural mirror. (Only this department has a postural mirror among the departments of physical medicine in Sri Lanka)

Patients are helped with lymphoedema (Swelling of an arm or leg) to reduce swelling by therauptic exercise, massage in elevation, external appliances and treating with intermittent compressing system (increasing and decreasing pressure around the limb on a time cycle, this equipment too is available only in this department). For soft tissue injuries such as cervical spondylosis, stiff and painful joints, low back pain (all peripheral and vertebral joints) this department offers treatment by passive movements (passive accessory and physiological movement) and the patient is taught to continue these exercises at home as these patients live far  away form the hospital and come form defferent parts of the country.

 
 
 
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