Look up: rehabilitation

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   Rehabilitation
   Rehabilitative services are normally ordered by a doctor to help a patient recover from an illness or injury. These services are given by nurses and physical, occupational, and speech therapists. Examples include working with a physical therapist to help a patient walk after surgery or working with an occupational therapist to help a patient learn how to get dressed after a stroke.
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   rehabilitation
   [n] - vindication of a person`s character and the re-establishment of that person`s reputation 2. [n] - the treatment of physical disabilities by massage and electrotherapy and exercises 3. [n] - the restoration of someone to a useful place in society
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   Rehabilitation
   a programme for reforming an offender to preclude subsequent offences
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   Rehabilitation
   A programme of treatment with the purpose of enabling patients to live as much of a normal live as possible or take part in normal activities and exercise. Rehabilitation may include a variety of medication and non-medicinal treatment. Where necessary programmes incorporate social and vocational training to help patients and former patients overcome difficulties in these areas.
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   Rehabilitation
   means discussion; guided exercise; getting social support; understanding of the illness, treatment, and symptoms; and knowing what to do lifestyle issues, why and how to exercise, and diet. It helps improve health for those who have had any of: heart attack, angioplasty, bypass surgery, stable angina, or heart failure. After a heart attack, correct rehabilitation reduces the risk of early death by 20%.
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   Rehabilitation
   The process of recovering from injury or disorder. With respect to spinal cord injury, rehabilitation involves becoming proficient in as many of the skills of normal daily living as possible. This may be relearning skills, such as control over certain movements, or finding new ways of doing tasks, such as those involved in managing the bladder and ...
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   Rehabilitation
   action or treatment to help offenders deal with the problems that have led them into crime - so they don't re-offend
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   Rehabilitation
   treatment for an injury or illness aimed at restoring physical abilities
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   Rehabilitation
   A programme of medicine and psychologicalal and clinical treatment designed to maximise residual physical, perceptual and cognitive abilities following injury, illness or disability.
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    Rehabilitation
    Rehabilitation: The process of restoration of skills by a person who has had an illness or injury so as to regain maximum self-sufficiency and function in a normal or as near normal manner as possible. For example, rehabilitation after a stroke may help the patient walk again and speak clearly again. The word comes from the Latin 'rehabilitare' mea ...
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    rehabilitation
    the operation and decisions after a disaster, with the view to restoring to the stricken country, communities, families and individuals the former living conditions, whilst at the same time encouraging and facilitating the necessary adjustments to the changes caused by the disaster or emergency; -DDMG Category: Management in the public and private sector • provision of specific goods a...
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    Rehabilitation
    Work that involves bringing features of a deteriorated bridge back into a satisfactorily functional state.
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    Rehabilitation
    The recovery of specific ecosystem services in a degraded ecosystem or habitat.
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    Rehabilitation
    The process of restoring a person's ability to live and work as normally as possible after a disabling injury or illness.
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    Rehabilitation
    Re`ha·bil`i·ta'tion noun [ Confer Late Latin rehabilitatio , French Réhabilitation .] The act of rehabilitating, or the state of being rehabilitated. Bouvier. Walsh.
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    rehabilitation
    The return of function after illness or injury, often with the assistance of specialised medical professionals. ... (16 Dec 1997) ...
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    Rehabilitation
    `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 damag...
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    rehabilitation
    (re″hә-bil″ĭ-ta´shәn) the process of restoring a person's ability to live and work as normally as possible after a disabling injury or illness. It aims to help the patient achieve maximum possible physical and psychologic fitness and regain the ability to be independent. ...
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    Rehabilitation
    • (n.) The act of rehabilitating, or the state of being rehabilitated.
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    rehabilitation
    (from the article `crime`) In the 1970s in the United States, for example, rehabilitation programs were largely abandoned because of the widely held view that they did not ... U.S. penologist whose introduction of novel penal administrative policies helped to emphasize a rehabilitative role for prisons.[4 related articles]
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    rehabilitation
    Restoration, following disease, illness, or injury, of the ability to function in a normal or near-normal manner. [L. rehabilitare, pp. -tatus, to make fit, fr. re- + habilitas, ability]
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    Rehabilitation
    The process of repairing or modifying a structure to a desired useful condition. See also Preservation, Repair, and Restoration.
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    Rehabilitation
    Rehabilitation means the restoration of or improvement in an employee's health and ability to perform the functions of his or her job. It usually involves a program of clinical and vocational services with the goal of returning employees to a satisfying occupation if possible.
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    rehabilitation
    rehabilitation: see physical therapy.
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