Possibility of complex rehabilitation of chronic pancreatitis at the stage of primary medical care (literature review)

Prevention of exacerbation and extension of remission of disease are crucial for the further rehabilitation of patients with chronic pancreatitis. Change of lifestyle is the first and the most important step in the prevention of repeated exacerbations of disease: stopping alcohol consumption and smoking, diet. In our time of the increasing number of diseases associated with the side effects of drugs and severe allergic reactions caused by them, physiotherapeutic methods of treatment can play key role in the complex therapy of diseases of internal organs: climate therapy, physiotherapy (yoga is effective in reducing the pain perception and increasing the body mass), hydrotherapy and treatment by heat (mineral water intake), peloidotherapy, methods of outfit physiotherapy. Phyto- and apitherapeutic agents, hirudotherapy, which are coming back to clinical practice, as well as reflexotherapeutic techniques, can be used for the treatment and rehabilitation of patients with chronic pancreatitis at the present stage of evolution. It should be taken into account that patients often have psychoemotional disorders, which can be considered upon choosing the differentiated rehabilitation programs, including psychotropic drugs and psychotherapy techniques in the traditional therapy of pancreatitis.