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rehabilitation:

see physical therapyphysical therapy
or physiotherapy,
treatment of disorders of the muscles, bones, or joints by means of physical agents—heat, light, water, manual and electronic massage, and exercise. Stroke, arthritis, fractures, and nerve damage are common conditions treated.
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Rehabilitation

Slum areas and substandard buildings brought up to an acceptable living standard. The U.S. Department of the Interior’s standards state: “returning a property to a state of utility through repair or alteration which makes possible an efficient contemporary use while preserving those portions or features of the property which are significant to its historical architectural, and cultural values.”To repair an existing building to good condition with minimal changes to the building fabric; may also include adaptive reuse or restoration; also called rehab.

Rehabilitation

(1) Restoration of rights.

(2) In medicine, medical, pedagogical, occupational, and legal measures that aim to restore the health and work capacity of individuals with physical and mental limitations resulting from disease or injury. Persons undergoing rehabilitation include those suffering from some diseases of the internal organs, from congenital and acquired diseases of the musculoskeletal system, from the sequelae of severe injuries, and from mental diseases. Rehabilitation is of particular importance for children suffering from mental retardation or from defects in hearing, speech, or vision.

Rehabilitation includes such therapeutic measures as occupational and exercise therapy, sports, electrotherapy, mud therapy, and massage. These procedures are carried out in rehabilitation departments and centers in large hospitals and in institutes of traumatology, psychiatry, and cardiology. Other rehabilitative measures develop basic skills needed by patients for self-sufficiency (social and everyday rehabilitation) and train them for work (occupational and industrial rehabilitation).

rehabilitation

[‚rē·ə‚bil·ə′tā·shən]

(medicine)

The restoration to a disabled individual of maximum independence commensurate with his limitations by developing his residual capacity.

rehabilitation

The process of returning a building to its original state of utility by means of repair or alteration.

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She runs her own clinic in Las Vegas apart from her duties in the cancer rehabilitation facility.

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Dimeo, a rehabilitation and sports medicine specialist at Freiburg University Medical Center in Germany, and his colleagues decided to step into the cancer rehabilitation arena with a pilot study of 32 patients, half of whom participated in an active exercise program.

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CAIRO: What started as a casual conversation over lunch ended with LE 5 million raised in funds for a cancer rehabilitation center for children in a record period of three months.

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Chapters are in sections on principles of cancer and cancer treatments, evaluation and treatment of specific malignancies, medical complications of cancer and their treatment, pain in cancer, neurological and neuromuscular complications of cancer, musculoskeletal complications of cancer, general topics in cancer rehabilitation, specific diagnoses in cancer rehabilitation, and special topics such as funding issues, public policy, and screening.

Cancer rehabilitation; principles & practice

A section by exercisebased cancer rehabilitation specialist, Prof Anna Campbell will also provide realistic exercise advice.

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Saturday's mini-institutes will provide in-depth exploration of topics such as lab parameters, the oncology pipeline, cancer immunology, B-cell malignancies, stem cell transplantation complications, breast reconstruction, brachytherapies, cancer rehabilitation, and survivorship care.

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But he was presented with a gold medal yesterday by China's Cancer Rehabilitation Club in recognition of the way he has inspired sufferers with his refusal to be daunted by the disease.

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Calendar Canada

In four sections, US and Canadian specialists in the field cover rehabilitation medicine strategies, documentation, clinics, and nursing home care and subacute rehabilitation; the scope of practice and the professionals on the rehabilitation team, from occupational therapy to rehabilitation nursing; topics and practice areas from cancer rehabilitation to wound care; and assessment and rating scales, tables, and algorithms.