How rehabilitation can help you
Anybody may need rehabilitation at some point in their lives, following an injury, surgery, disease, illness, or because their functioning has declined with age. Rehabilitation helps the person be as independent as possible in everyday activities and enables participation in education, work, recreation, and meaningful life roles. Rehabilitation addresses underlying conditions and improves a person’s functions in everyday life, supporting them to overcome difficulties with thinking, seeing, hearing, communicating, eating, moving, etc. Here are few examples of types of treatments that may be used in rehabilitation to help you:
- Rehabilitation helps people with injuries and disabilities learn to use assistive devices, such as crutches, canes, wheelchairs, and other tools and equipment.
- Rehabilitation specialists help improve a person’s home environment to their safety and independence at home.
- Rehabilitation helps reduce or alleviate pain.
- Cognitive rehabilitation therapy helps people relearn or improve skills, such as thinking, learning, memory, planning, and decision making.
- Occupational therapy helps people by optimizing their abilities to perform daily activities, such as work, play, education, leisure, rest and sleep, and social participation.
- Physical therapists help people reduce pain and restore, maintain and maximize strength, function, movement, and overall well-being.
- Recreational therapy helps improve a person‘s emotional well-being through arts and crafts, games, relaxation training, etc.
- Speech-language therapy can help improve a person’s speech, language, reading, writing, understanding, and communication after various injuries and illnesses, for instance, stroke, brain injury, etc.
- Vocational rehabilitation helps people build skills for going to school or working at a job.
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