rehabilitation therapy

Restoring function sessions

Rehabilitation therapy is treatment designed to restore function, mobility, or abilities after injury, illness, or surgery.

It encompasses physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech therapy, among others.

The goal is helping patients regain independence and return to daily activities: After her stroke, months of rehabilitation therapy helped her walk again.

Opposites
treatment timing/phase

rehabilitation therapyemergency medicine

Urgent healthcare specialty

acute care · emergency treatment · trauma care · emergency surgery · critical care

therapeutic goal

rehabilitation therapydeterioration

Process of declining quality

degeneration · harm · injury · debilitation · deconditioning

intervention approach

rehabilitation therapyneglect

Failure to provide care

medical neglect · abandonment · palliative care · hospice care · watchful waiting

Family

therapy, rehabilitation

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Positive · Rated G