All physical activity should be supervised by qualified personnel. Exercises should not be reordered, replaced by others or prolonged. They should not be too intense.

Properly managed rehabilitation offers the opportunity to improve and even repair lost neurological function.

Social and psychological rehabilitation

A patient with S staying at home should be visited by psychologists or psychotherapists. The patient should be made aware that he is able to live and function independently. He or she should be active at work, play sports and not give up his or her social life. These rehabilitations should already start at the time of S diagnosis.

You should provide the patient with all the necessary information about the disease, calmly, with a lot of patience and understanding. One should put oneself in the patient's shoes. The information should also be passed on to the family. Make the patient aware that he/she should not give up his/her professional and family plans, dreams, physical activities and contacts with friends. Meetings with a psychotherapist should last as long as the patient and his family require. This is a very individual matter.

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Speech rehabilitation

In the later stages of the disease in patients with S, problems with communication, pelvic muscles and control of sphincter function emerge. Speech rehabilitation, under the guidance of a specialist speech therapist or psychotherapist, plays a key role at this stage, improving the patient's range of communication with the environment and facilitating understanding. Pelvic muscle rehabilitation is also essential. In many cases, a visit to an urologist is necessary.