Rehabilitation After Intensive Care (ICU) in Amman

About the condition

A long stay in intensive care costs an extraordinary amount of muscle — patients can lose a significant proportion of their strength within the first week of immobility. Families are often shocked that someone who was medically saved cannot stand.

This is well recognised, and it responds to rehabilitation. The weakness, the breathlessness, the poor balance and the exhaustion after a hospital stay are not something you simply wait out — they are what a structured programme is designed to reverse.

How we treat it

• Assessment of strength, endurance, balance and what you can do independently right now
• Very graded early work — sitting, standing, transfers — before anything more demanding
• Progressive strength training as tolerance builds
• Walking re-education and endurance building
• Breathing work where the chest was involved, and pacing to manage profound fatigue
• Home sessions in the early stage, and family training for the time between visits

What the sessions look like

Early progress can feel slow and then accelerate. That pattern is normal and we will tell you when we are seeing it.

Fatigue is the dominant limit at the beginning, so the programme is paced rather than pushed.

Full recovery from a long ICU stay is measured in months. We are honest about that, and we track the markers so you can see it happening.

Common questions