Die Rehabilitation
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Many polytrauma patients report significant long-term impairments to their physical and mental health, resulting in a reduction of their quality of life. In addition to the obvious physical accident sequences, psychological influences and the individual context factors pose special challenges to the rehabilitation team and the infrastructure of the facility. Professional reintegration and chronic pain are particularly common problems in the trauma rehabilitation. ⋯ The further rehabilitation (phase E) provides specific measures, such as pain rehabilitation or activity-oriented procedures. A long-term follow-up of formerly seriously injured patients is necessary (phase F). An integration of trauma rehabilitation centers into the existing trauma network remains the long-term goal to improve the outcome after polytrauma.