Careers and people who work in the Rehabilitation field
Terms and Definitions in the rehabilitation and therapy field
Rehabilitation Techniques
Settings that people work in (ex: Hospitals, Outpatient, Offices, Schools, etc.)er Category Name
Exercises that people do while at therapy
100

Help people with disabilities learn and develop skills to live independently.

Who is Occupational therapist?

100

Excessive movement in the direction of extension.

What is Hyperextension?

100

Using water to relive inflammation, pain, and reducing pressure on bones, muscles, and joints.

What is Hydrotherapy?

100

A place where people stay overnight if needed.

Where is a Hospital?
100

Exercises with weights, exercises with elastic bands, exercises using the patient’s body weight to provide resistance.

What is Muscle-strengthening exercises?

200

Treats and diagnose people with hearing and balance disorders.

Who is Audiologist.

200

A measure of the amount of movement/motion available at any given joint of the body.

What is Range of Motion?

200

Utilized to relieve muscle pain, increase blood flow, and decrease muscle soreness.

What is Massage Therapy?

200

A place where people go to get a massage.

Where is a Massage Therapy clinic?

200

Walking, jogging, stair climbing, side-stepping (sideways), shuffle walking (walking backward

What is Ambulation?

300

help patients improve their mobility, resume their favorite activities and recover their overall health.

Who is a Physical Therapist?

300

- Stimulation of the vestibular apparatus (bones of the inner ear and canals) that provides information regarding acceleration and the position of the body in space.

What is Vestibular Stimulation?

300
Therapy that involves freezing or near-freezing temperatures.
What is Cryotherapy?
300

A place where people go to remove tattoos.

Where is a Laser Therapy clinic?

300

Hamstring stretch, straight-leg raise, supine hip extension, Prone knee-to-chest exercise, lying hip flexion with pelvic tilt and rotation.

What is Range of motion exercises?

400

treat patients through exercise, massage, gait and balance training, and other therapeutic interventions and is not allowed to preform evaluations.

Who is a Physical therapists assistant?
400

The ability of the Central Nervous System to regulate or direct the musculoskeletal system in a purposeful act.

What is Motor Control?

400

Utilized for "creating joint space, pain pathways, improve circulation, and blood flow" using colorful tape.

What is Kinesiology Therapy?

400

A place where people are 50% less body weight.

Where is a Hydrotherapy clinic?

400

Lateral and side lunges, water aerobics, step-ups, squats.

What is Conditioning Exercises?

500

assess and treat people who have speech, language, voice, and fluency disorders.

Who is a Speech-language pathologists?

500

one extremity/limb performs a movement without the other extremity doing the same or similar movement at the same time.

What is Dissociation?

500

Utilized for inflammation, scar tissue, pain, muscle spasms, and reduce calcium.

What is Iontophoresis?

500

A place to go to heal scar tissue.

Where is a Ultrasound Theraoy clinic?

500

Single leg standing balance exercises, walking on a line or balance beam, squatting with a chair on the balls of your feet.

What is Coordination and Balance Exercises?

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