title: [The alcoholic patient in rehabilitation].
abstract: Alcoholics are in general not the ideal candidates for a cardiac rehabilitation programme, mainly because the rehabilitation demands a high degree of cooperation and motivation by the patients to be successful. Therefore, only stable patients with some self-esteem and strong enough to withstand the temptation of the available alcohol, patients without symptoms and signs of neuro-psychiatric deficit and with a relative intact social network, have a chance to benefit from the therapy which is based mainly on a physical training programme beside the usual medical care, but without the possibility of intensive care.
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Medizinische Rehabilitation, Gais.
authors.forename: H U
authors.initials: HU
authors.lastname: Niederhauser
authors.forename: H K
authors.initials: HK
authors.lastname: Schoch
mesh_terms: D000437:Alcoholism / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D006801:Humans; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D010349:Patient Compliance; D012047:Rehabilitation Centers; D013557:Switzerland
vernacular_title: Der Alkoholkranke in der Rehabilitation.