Treatment aimed at enabling a person to live an independent life following injury, illness, alcohol dependence, or drug dependence. Treatment may include physiotherapy, occupational therapy, and psychotherapy.
In a rehabilitation centre, a person’s disability or dependence is assessed and a treatment programme is developed.
Industrial rehabilitation centres provide job retraining for those who cannot return to their previous employment.
Drug and alcohol rehabilitation centres help people through withdrawal and provide psychological support.
The restoration to health and working capacity of a person incapacitated by disease – mental or physical – or by injury. Treatment usually includes OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY, PHYSIOTHERAPY and PSYCHOTHERAPY depending upon the type of disease or injury. Rehabilitation is commonly carried out at special centres, either on a daily or a residential basis. This allows di?erent types of specialists to co-operate in the patient’s rehabilitation. (See also DISABLED PERSONS.)
A proactive and goal-oriented activity to restore function and/or to maximize remaining function to bring about the highest possible level of independence, physically, psychologically, socially and economically. It involves combined and coordinated use of medical, nursing and allied health skills, along with social, educational and vocational services, to provide individual assessment, treatment, regular review, discharge planning and follow-up. Rehabilitation is concerned, not only with physical recovery, but also with psychological and social recovery and reintegration (or integration) of the person into the community.
1. (in *physical medicine) the treatment of an ill, injured, or disabled patient with the aim of restoring normal health and function or to prevent the disability from getting worse. 2. any means for restoring the independence of a patient after diseases or injury, including employment retraining.
A service designed to improve function and/or prevent deterioration of functioning. Such services may include physical therapy, occupational therapy, and/or speech therapy. They may be provided at home, in a hospital or in a long-term care facility.... rehabilitation service
a programme of staged exercises and lifestyle classes designed for people recovering from a heart attack and run through the local hospital by dedicated health care professionals, who may include specialist nurses, occupational therapists, and physiotherapists.... cardiac rehabilitation
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