Rehabilitation Services: Restore Health and Independence

Rehabilitation involves restoring optimal health, function, and independence through personalized treatment plans and therapies.

Rehabilitation FAQ

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What is rehabilitation in a health context?

This article will focus on rehabilitation in a health context. In health, when referring to acute or chronic diseases, injury or trauma, rehabilitation can be defined as "set of interventions designed to optimise functioning in individuals with health conditions in interaction with their environment".

What is effective rehabilitation?

Effective rehabilitation is a person-centred process, with treatment tailored to the individual patient’s needs and, importantly, personalized monitoring of changes associated with intervention, with further changes in goals and actions if needed. What constitutes rehabilitation? Physiotherapy? Exercises? Something you receive ‘to get you better’?

What is a rehabilitation program?

Rehabilitation is defined as “a set of interventions designed to optimize functioning and reduce disability in individuals with health conditions in interaction with their environment”.

What is rehabilitation in the community?

Rehabilitation in the community similarly aims to optimize functioning in those who are not in the hospital system, to identify needs, and to provide services in a person’s typical environment.

Who needs rehabilitation?

Rehabilitation is not only for people with disabilities or long-term or physical impairments. Rather, rehabilitation is an essential health service for anyone with an acute or chronic health condition, impairment or injury that limits functioning, and as such should be available for anyone who needs it.

What is rehabilitation & why is it important?

What is rehabilitation? Rehabilitation is about enabling and supporting individuals to recover or adjust, to achieve their full potential and to live as full and active lives as possible. Rehab should start as soon as possible to speed recovery.

What does a rehabilitation service do?

It is focused on helping people remain as independent as possible, continuing to live their lives and, wherever possible, returning to work and occupation. The work supports commissioners, services users, providers and clinicians to develop and improve rehabilitation services that respond to local needs.