Rehab

What is rehab or rehabilitation?
Rehab (short form of rehabilitation) is a generic term for various processes involved in restoration of, or improving the health of a person with clinical or vocational (or both) services. In Latin, "habilitas" means "to make able". So its an overall process of recovery from some specific health problem like drug addiction, alcohol addiction etc.

This website provides information on various types of rehab available for different types of addictions, for example drug rehab, alcohol rehab, cardiac rehab, vocational rehab, teen rehab, brain rehab etc.

So whether you are looking for information on rehab in general or some specific type, just checkout our left hand side links and we are sure that you will find the information you are looking.

You may recover slowly, after a serious injury, surgery or illness. There is need to regain your strength and other skills or find some new ways to do things you did before.

Rehabilitation mainly focuses on functions. Functioning properly is the key to regaining and maintaining independence and life quality, after the illness or injury.

Starting rehabilitation at earlier will help you doing functions and increase your chances of returning to your previous level of functioning as much as possible.

Rehabilitation process includes:

Occupational therapy to help you with your daily activities
Physical therapy to help your strength, mobility and fitness
Treatment of pain

The type and goals of therapy may be different for different people. For example, the goal of a younger person who has suffered a heart attack is to return to work and normal activities. While an older person has had a stroke, only wants to dress or bathe without help.

Rehabilitation can take place in many types of settings:

special units in acute care hospitals or rehabilitation hospitals
outpatient centers
nursing facilities
private offices
homes

Rehab Centers
Whether you are looking for rehab centers for some particular type of rehab or you are looking for a rehab center near your city or place, then this rehab center directory will provide information on all rehab centers with detail information.