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.
Music
- "Rehab" (song), a song by Amy Winehouse.
- Rehab (band), a rap/rock band from Warner Robins, Georgia
- Rehab (Quiet Riot album), a rock album by the band Quiet Riot; released in 2006.
- "Rehab" (song), a contemporary R&B/pop song and future single by Rihanna.