Rehabilitation

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Rehabilitation or Rehab may refer to:

  • 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, therapy aimed at giving people "skills for the job of living".
  • Physical therapy, treatment aimed at the attainment or recovery of optimal neuromusculoskeletal function.
  • Physical medicine and rehabilitation, a branch of medicine dealing with restoration of function despite physical disability.
  • Political rehabilitation, the process by which politicians or political party members who have fallen into disgrace are restored to public life.
  • Religious rehabilitation which can follow excommunication if the faith's member demonstrates repentance.
  • Psychiatric rehabilitation, a branch of psychiatry dealing with restoration of mental health and life skills after mental illness.
  • Rehabilitation engineering is the application of engineering sciences to design, develop, adapt, test, evaluate, apply, and distribute technological solutions to problems confronted by individuals with disabilities.
  • Rehabilitation (neuropsychology), therapy aimed at improving neurologic function that has been lost or diminished by disease or traumatic injury.
  • Rehabilitation (penology), the rehabilitation of criminal behavior.
  • Rehabilitation (Soviet), a "false friend" often used to translate the Russian word "reabilitatsiya" as applied, e.g. to victims of Soviet repressions. The actual meaning is "exoneration" or "exculpation".
  • Stroke rehabilitation, the process of recovering from a stroke.
  • Telerehabilitation is the delivery of rehabilitation services over telecommunication networks and the internet.
  • Vocational rehabilitation, the process of helping people with disabilities (typically Veterans) to find and keep suitable jobs.
  • Wildlife rehabilitation, treatment of injured wildlife with the purpose of preparing it to return to the wild.

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