Main directions and types of medical rehabilitation

Abstract

Medical rehabilitation refers to the process of systematic and continuous restoration of a patient’s physical and mental health and ability to work, basis for the development of which is physical or mental injuries, occupational diseases, or severe organic lesions of organs and systems. The purpose of medical rehabilitation is to organize quick and effective return of the patients to society to fulfill work skills and domestic functions which they lost. The main objective of medical rehabilitation is prevention of disability, recovery and extension of active life, social integration and ensuring the proper level of quality of life. The “maximum” program during medical rehabilitation consists in achieving the full social and everyday level that existed before the disease or injury; the “minimum” program is to ensure the patient’s ability to elementary self-care.