The basic legal framework for the operation of Rehabilitation Centers in Greece is implemented following the directives of the European Economic Community. The objective is the design and development of modern social care and welfare services, through organized, independent Recovery and Rehabilitation Units. However, society’s general attitude towards disability at the time was hostile, and there was a lack of planning, objectives, services, structures and infrastructure. In this context ANAPLASI, the first organized, adminsterially and scientifically, Rehabilitation Center in our country, is founded in 1994.

ANAPLASI opens its doors in Chalandri, Attica. It successfully lobbies for the Government Directive giving patients the right to a comprehensive outpatient rehabilitation program, thus separating Rehabilitation from the welfare structures of institutions for chronic diseases, for the first time in Greece, and the consignment of patients with disabilities to residential institutions. It introduces the practice of the Trans- Disciplinary Rehabilitation Team in Greece and the novel practice of combined therapeutic interventions, where therapists of different specialties simultaneously participate in one therapy session.

ANAPLASI provides financial support and free rehabilitation programs to those affected by the great earthquake in Athens of 1999. For its practical support to the victims, an official letter of gratitude is received from the Prime Minister of Greece.

ANAPLASI officially becomes a major sponsor of the National Sports Federation of Persons with Disabilities and the Association of Hellenic Paralympians. The Rehabilitation Team of ANAPLASI supports the Paralympians who excelled at the Athens Olympic Games. Paraskevi Kantza, Anthi Karagianni, Yannis Kostakis, Thanasis Barakas, Simos Palsanitidis, Eleni Samaritaki, and Grigoris Polychronidis are some of the athletes embraced by ANAPLASI and who are instrumental in writing the history of the Hellenic Paralympic movement.

The new ANAPLASI is established. The location of the new ANAPLASI, in the center of the Prefecture of Attica, in the heart of the social fabric, with green and open spaces, close to a large Hospital (“General Hospital of Konstantopoulio – St. Olga”) was a strategic choice. The new ANAPLASI is less than two kilometers from the Attiki Odos (Heraklion exit, Kymi exit) and the National Road (Nea Filadelfia exit). It is easily accessible from all central road axes (Kifissias Avenue, Galatsi Avenue, Dekelias Avenue, Heraklion Avenue) and is served by buses (OASA stop “Agia Olga”) and metro (ISAP station “Nea Ionia”). The construction of the state-of-the-art building, designed and intended for high-level intensive rehabilitation starts at a rapid pace.

ANAPLASI hosts the State Theatre of Northern Greece: For the first time, a renowned professional theatrical performance is hosted in a Rehabilitation Center, coming within the scope of ANAPLASI’s social interventions and designed to address the permanent or temporary marginalization of patients with from permanent or temporary disability. It is the beginning of many cultural events for people with disabilities.

ANAPLASI introduces Neuronavigted TMS to Rehabilitation: This is a revolutionary technology, which maps specific brain centers, with the aim of protecting the brain during neurosurgical procedures, as well as performing neuromodulation for treating patients suffering from Depression. ANAPLASI collaborates with health organizations internationally to research the effectiveness of NTMS in stroke, as well as chronic pain, epilepsy, Parkinson’s disease, and multiple sclerosis.