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REHABILITATION is the process of restoring someone to health, normal life, or good condition through training and therapy after illness, injury, addiction, or imprisonment.
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REHABILITATION is the process of helping a person recover and regain skills, functioning, or standing after a setback such as illness, injury, addiction, or incarceration. It involves comprehensive programs designed to restore physical, mental, social, or vocational abilities. Rehabilitation takes many forms depending on the context: medical rehabilitation helps patients recover from injuries or illnesses; vocational rehabilitation assists people in returning to work; criminal rehabilitation aims to reintegrate offenders into society; and drug rehabilitation helps people overcome addiction.Types of rehabilitation:
The word rehabilitation comes from Medieval Latin rehabilitatio, from rehabilitare meaning "to restore to former capacity." This breaks down to re- (again) + habilitare (make able), from habilis (able). The term originally (16th century) meant restoring someone to their former rank or privileges, especially in a legal context. The medical sense developed in the 19th century, and the criminal justice usage emerged in the early 20th century with prison reform movements. The evolution of the word reflects changing attitudes toward recovery and second chances in society.
Facility for recovery treatment
Recovery program after heart issues
Job skills training after injury
Structured recovery plan
•The modern rehabilitation movement began after WWI to help injured veterans
•Physical therapy as we know it was established during the polio epidemics of the 1940s-50s
•Countries with rehabilitation-focused prison systems have recidivism rates as low as 16%
"After six months of rehabilitation, she regained full use of her arm following the accident."
"The rehabilitation center focuses on helping people develop job skills for successful reentry into society."
Adjective Form
rehabilitative
She underwent rehabilitative therapy after the accident.
Noun Form
rehab (informal)
He checked into rehab for substance abuse treatment.
Verb Form
rehabilitate
The program aims to rehabilitate injured athletes.
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Total base points: 19 (Scrabble)
Vowels: 7 | Consonants: 7
Revolutionary approach to recovery, moving from passive care to active restoration of function.
Shift from purely punitive to reformative approach, though implementation varies globally.
Critical for returning soldiers, driving advances in prosthetics and trauma care.
Professional athletics has advanced rehabilitation science and techniques.
Using "habilitation" interchangeably
Habilitation is learning new skills; rehabilitation is regaining lost ones
Thinking it's only physical
Includes cognitive, social, and vocational aspects
Pronunciation as "re-habil-itation"
Correct: ree-ha-bil-i-TAY-shun
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