Rehabilitation Benefits and Types

Published May 18, 2010

After a serious injury, illness or surgery, you may recover slowly. You may need to regain your strength, relearn skills or find new ways of doing things you did before. This process is rehabilitation. Sometimes after sudden illness or injury people find themselves needing help to manage at home, or even having to consider going into permanent residential or nursing home care.

Rehabilitation often focuses on physical therapy to help your strength, mobility and fitness, Occupational therapy to help you with your daily activities and treatment of pain.

Types of Rehabilatition

Drug rehabilitation, for dependency on psychoactive substances such as alcohol, prescription drugs, and illicit drugs such as cocaine, heroin or amphetamines.

Fire department rehab is a firefighting service providing firefighters with immediate medical attention on the fireground.

Land rehabilitation, the process of restoring land after some process (business, industry, natural disaster etc.) has damaged it.

Occupational therapy

Physical therapy, treatment aimed at the recovery of musculoskeletal function, particularly recovery from joint, tendon, or ligament repair.

Political rehabilitation

Religious rehabilitation

Psychiatric rehabilitation

Rehabilitation engineering

Rehabilitation (neuropsychology), therapy aimed at improving neurologic function that has been lost or diminished by disease or traumatic injury.

Stroke rehabilitation, the process of recovering from a stroke

Vocational rehabilitation

Wildlife rehabilitation

Drug rehabilitation (often drug rehab or just rehab) is an umbrella term for the processes of medical and/or psychotherapeutic treatment, for dependency on psychoactive substances such as alcohol, prescription drugs, and so-called street drugs such as cocaine, heroin or amphetamines. The general intent is to enable the patient to cease substance abuse, in order to avoid the psychological, legal, financial, social, and physical consequences that can be caused, especially by extreme abuse. Some people will not need any further help following rehabilitation, but some might need to have a different programme of rehabilitation, or long-term services to help them stay in their own homes.

If ongoing help is needed, a Care Manager will arrange this for you. Understandably, some of our service users who still need some long-term support can feel disappointed to find that the carers who provided their rehabilitation service cannot provide this.

Rachel Broune writes articles for migraines. He also writes for depression symptoms and health care .

Rehabilitation Benefits and Types

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