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Rehabilitation and it's types

1. Rehabilitation & Its Types Akshay Raju Badore MPT - CBR

2. Rehabilitation According to WHO “Rehabilitation or rehab is the combined and coordinated use of the medical, social, educational, and vocational measures for training and re-training the individual to the highest possible level of functional ability”

3. Principles of Rehabilitation Rehabilitation should begin during the initial contact with the patient. Increasing independence would be the first step in rehabilitation process. Primary focus is on improvement of capabilities and competence of patients with psychiatric problems. Maximum use must be made of residual capacities. Patients active participation is very essential. Skill development, therapeutic environment are fundamental interventions for a successful rehabilitation process. Every patient has a right to the rehabilitation services.

4. Aspects of Rehabitation Medical Rehabilitation Includes restoration of functions by prosthesis, artificial limbs etc 2) Social Rehabilitation Includes restoration of family and social relationship by replacement in the family.

5. Cont….. 3) Educational Rehabilitation Includes specialized training and educational facilities Eg . Braille for blind, sign languages for dumb and deaf. 4) Psychological Rehabilitation Includes restoration of personal dignity and confidence during the period of growth and development and in adult life. Also enabling the individual to return to his highest possible level of functioning

6. Types of Rehabilitation There are too many types of rehabilitation but some common types of therapy include

7. Physical Rehabilitation Physical rehabilitation is for those people whose lifestyle has changed after they have gone through a serious illness, surgery, accident or illness. Here the therapist introduces programs to improve the mobility and functioning of the injured body part of the patient. Proper exercising program is designed to improve the functioning often physical body. Includes therapies that will help a patient relearn the basic physical and cognitive functioning.

8. Occupational Rehabilitation Therapy Occupational therapy will focus very specifically on the needs of the patient to be able to work as well as daily living tasks such as grooming and household care. If a patient had a weakness in the fingers for example, an Occupational therapy will evaluate the ways in which this patient needs to use those fingers in their daily life and work and will help them to adapt. Occupational therapy might prescribe adaptations to the patients home or work environment such as handrails, modified shower, lowered counters, etc. Typical inpatient facilities have kitchens, bathrooms, and work environments in which they help the patient practice the life skills that they will need.

9. Speech/Swallow Rehab Therapy If there is a weakness of deficit with the mouth or throat, it can manifest itself as a lack of clear speech or a slow or weakened swallow. Speech therapists specialize in these oral deficits and provide exercises that will strengthen the specific muscles that are slow or weak. Speech and swallowing are amazingly complex activities that requires a great deal of coordination in all these oral muscles. Speech therapists can use a combination of observation and imaging diagnostics such as moving x-ray that allow them to understand and treat these conditions.

10. Cognitive Rehabilitation Therapy Cognitive rehabilitation is a program to help brain injured or otherwise cognitively impaired individuals to restore normal functioning, or to compensate for cognitive deficits. It involves relearning or improving skills, such as thinking, learning, memory, planning and decision making that may have been lost or affected by brain injury. A computer assisted type of cognitive rehabilitation therapy called cognitive remediation therapy has been used to treat schizophrenia, ADHD, and major depressive disorders.

11. Vocational Rehabilitation Therapy Vocational Rehabilitation is a part of continuous and coordinated process of rehabilitation which involves the provision of those vocational services (for example, vocational guidance, vocational training and selective placement) designed to enable a disabled person to secure and retain suitable employment.

12. Phases in Vocational Rehabilitation 1) Vocational assessment: It is done in four areas viz., clinical, social, psychological and vocational. 2)Vocational counselling: This includes informing patients and family members regarding the types of training available. Family consent should be taken for rehabilitation training. 3) Vocational training: It includes Course content Duration of training Incentives Assessment of the progress Imparting skills Supervisions 4) Job exploration: Finding out various jobs available in the community. 5) Job placement: This include selecting suitable job, placement of the patient in the job, checking the facilities available and evaluating work performance. 6) Follow - up

13. Other types of rehabilitation Cardiac Rehabilitation Neurological Rehabilitation Drug Rehabilitation Alcohol Rehabilitation Mental Health Rehabilitation Stroke Rehabilitation Vestibular Rehabilitation Stress Rehabilitation Traumatic Brain Injury Rehabilitation Criminal Rehabilitation

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