MedlinePlus Health Topics

Last uploaded: January 29, 2019
Preferred Name

Rehab

Synonyms

Rehabilitation

Definitions

<p>After a serious injury, illness or surgery, you may recover slowly. You may need to regain your strength, relearn skills or find new ways of doing things you did before. This process is rehabilitation. </p> <p>Rehabilitation often focuses on</p> <ul> <li> Physical therapy to help your strength, mobility and fitness</li> <li> Occupational therapy to help you with your daily activities</li> <li> Speech-language therapy to help with speaking, understanding, reading, writing and swallowing</li> <li> Treatment of pain</li> </ul> <p>The type of therapy and goals of therapy may be different for different people. An older person who has had a stroke may simply want <a href='https://medlineplus.gov/strokerehabilitation.html'>rehabilitation</a> to be able to dress or bathe without help. A younger person who has had a heart attack may go through <a href='https://medlineplus.gov/cardiacrehabilitation.html'>cardiac rehabilitation</a> to try to return to work and normal activities. Someone with a lung disease may get <a href='https://medlineplus.gov/pulmonaryrehabilitation.html'>pulmonary rehabilitation</a> to be able to breathe better and improve their quality of life. </p>

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http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MEDLINEPLUS/C0034991

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Rehabilitation

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C0034991

Date created

02/29/2000

definition

After a serious injury, illness or surgery, you may recover slowly. You may need to regain your strength, relearn skills or find new ways of doing things you did before. This process is rehabilitation.

Rehabilitation often focuses on

  • Physical therapy to help your strength, mobility and fitness
  • Occupational therapy to help you with your daily activities
  • Speech-language therapy to help with speaking, understanding, reading, writing and swallowing
  • Treatment of pain

The type of therapy and goals of therapy may be different for different people. An older person who has had a stroke may simply want rehabilitation to be able to dress or bathe without help. A younger person who has had a heart attack may go through cardiac rehabilitation to try to return to work and normal activities. Someone with a lung disease may get pulmonary rehabilitation to be able to breathe better and improve their quality of life.

Inverse of RQ

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MEDLINEPLUS/C0949766

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MEDLINEPLUS/C1318464

Inverse of SIB

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MEDLINEPLUS/C0700431

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MEDLINEPLUS/C0395416

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MEDLINEPLUS/C1522449

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MEDLINEPLUS/C0520446

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MEDLINEPLUS/C0036605

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MEDLINEPLUS/C0086511

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MEDLINEPLUS/C0014245

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MEDLINEPLUS/C0010055

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MEDLINEPLUS/C0029473

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MEDLINEPLUS/C0020699

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MEDLINEPLUS/C0392806

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MEDLINEPLUS/C0024881

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MEDLINEPLUS/C0204097

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MEDLINEPLUS/C0010337

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MEDLINEPLUS/C0184633

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MEDLINEPLUS/C0241311

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MEDLINEPLUS/C0085076

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MEDLINEPLUS/C0199529

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MEDLINEPLUS/C1456587

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MEDLINEPLUS/C0018821

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MEDLINEPLUS/C0162577

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MEDLINEPLUS/C1456685

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MEDLINEPLUS/C0002903

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MEDLINEPLUS/C0038894

Inverse of SY

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MEDLINEPLUS/C0034991

Mapped from

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MEDLINEPLUS/C0034991

Mapped to

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MEDLINEPLUS/C0034991

MP HEALTH TOPIC URL

https://medlineplus.gov/rehabilitation.html

MP OTHER LANGUAGE URL

Hindi https://medlineplus.gov/languages/rehabilitation.html#Hindi

Russian https://medlineplus.gov/languages/rehabilitation.html#Russian

Spanish https://medlineplus.gov/spanish/rehabilitation.html

Korean https://medlineplus.gov/languages/rehabilitation.html#Korean

Chinese, Traditional (Cantonese dialect) https://medlineplus.gov/languages/rehabilitation.html#Chinese, Traditional (Cantonese dialect)

French https://medlineplus.gov/languages/rehabilitation.html#French

Japanese https://medlineplus.gov/languages/rehabilitation.html#Japanese

Arabic https://medlineplus.gov/languages/rehabilitation.html#Arabic

Chinese, Simplified (Mandarin dialect) https://medlineplus.gov/languages/rehabilitation.html#Chinese, Simplified (Mandarin dialect)

Spanish https://medlineplus.gov/languages/rehabilitation.html#Spanish

Somali https://medlineplus.gov/languages/rehabilitation.html#Somali

Vietnamese https://medlineplus.gov/languages/rehabilitation.html#Vietnamese

Nepali https://medlineplus.gov/languages/rehabilitation.html#Nepali

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C0034991

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Rehab

Related to

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MEDLINEPLUS/C0700431

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MEDLINEPLUS/C0036605

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MEDLINEPLUS/C0204097

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MEDLINEPLUS/C0199529

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MEDLINEPLUS/C0231170

tui

T061

subClassOf

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MEDLINEPLUS/C2362504

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