PIONEER REHABILITATION & ALLIED HEALTH SCIENCES

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Rehabilitation is a process to train or retrain an individual to the highest possible level of functional ability. A proper and adequate rehabilitation program can help the patient to cope with deficits .The rehabilitation program addresses the patients’ physical, psychological, and environmental needs .This can be achieved by combined coordinated use of Medical, Social, Educational, Economic and vocational measures restoring the patients’ physical function or by modifying the physical and social environment. Inability to perform a function is known as impairment, which if results in restriction of performance of an activity, leads to Disability; which can further be termed as Handicap if the condition limits the fulfillment of a role that is normal for an individual. The Disability and conditions which may require rehabilitation can be:

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.Locomotor: Spinal Cord injury, CVA, Polio, Amputation etc.

.Speech and Hearing: Aphasia, Dysarthria, Dysphagia etc.

.Visual

.Mental & Psychological

.Post surgical: Cardiac, Orthopedic, gynecological surgeries etc.

Each rehabilitation program is tailored to the individual patient’s needs and can include one or more types of therapy. The patient’s physician usually coordinates the efforts of the rehabilitation team, which can include physical, occupational, speech, or other therapists; nurses; psychologist, engineers; physiatrists (physical medicine); psychologists; orthotists (makes devices such as braces to straighten out curved or poorly shaped bones); prosthetist (who makes artificial limbs or prosthesis); and vocational counselors. Family members are often actively involved and are the most integral part in the patient’s rehabilitation program.

Rehabilitation often focuses on Physical therapy and Occupational therapy to make the patient painfree, to help the patient gain strength, mobility and fitness activities and make him independent in the activities of daily living (ADL).Speech-language therapy to help with speaking, tone and coordinate the articulating components of speech, understanding, reading, writing and swallowing. Psychological rehabilitation is required for patients who give up hope of a normal or near normal lifestyle due to their disability. It also helps in motivation which turns out to be the key to the success of the whole Rehabilitation programme.