[Patient medical rehabilitation following osteoplastic operations using hydroxylapatite-based porous ceramic]

At the URIOP Department of Tumours of the Locomotor System, osseous plastic operations were performed with making use of hydroxilapatite-base porous ceramics in 60 patients with benign tumours of bone and tumour-like lesions of bone. Apart from surgery the patients underwent a complex of rehabilitative measures, such as remedial gymnastics, massage, designed to restore locomotor functions of the extremity. Time periods of medical rehabilitation of patients were found to have gotten reduced by 1 to 2 months on the average providing the multimodality treatments with remedial gymnastics and massage were administered.