Rehabilitation
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See for
functional recovery, intervention program, recovery of function
Broader Terms
Narrower Terms
cancer rehabilitation /care, medical rehabilitation related tag, psychosocial rehabilitation, vocational rehabilitation
Related Terms
assistive device /technology, behavioral medicine, connective tissue disorder therapy, disabling disease, functional ability, musculoskeletal disorder therapy, nervous system disorder therapy, occupational therapy, orthopedics, orthotics, person with disability, prognosis, prosthesis, quality of life, speech therapy, stroke therapy
Scope Note
research directed towards restoration or improvement of functional capability lost as a consequence of injury, disease, congenital disorder, or natural aging process; for through searching, see RTs.
Facts (generated by robot; please edit if you find it inaccurate)
- " Rehabilitation is less a matter of identifying specific treatment methods, than it is one of creating conditions which support a variety of intensive options.
- Psychiatric rehabilitation is a combination of services incorporating social, educational, occupational, behavioral and cognitive interventions aimed atlong-term recovery and maximization of self-sufficiency.
- 1996 Rehabilitation Rehabilitation is defined as the development of a person to the fullest physical, psychological, social, vocational, avocational and educational potential consistent with his or her physiological or anatomic impairment and environmental limitations.
- ’ (Ylvisaker, 1998) Rehabilitation is not the same as the natural process of recovery.
- 5Issue11 Low back pain trial finds rehabilitation is best b49 The largest ever clinical trial of surgery versus exercise treatments for chronic low back pain has found that patients may obtain as much benefit from an intense exercise and therapy programme as from spinal surgery.
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