Devices that help to stabilize a weak joint or limb
What is a supportive device?
100
Focuses on helping the person regain or maintain strength, endurance, coordination, balance, posture and flexibility
What is physical therapy
200
The process of helping a person with a disability to return to his or her highest level of physical, emotional or economic function
What is Rehabilitation?
200
Devices that make certain tasks (such as walking, eating or dressing) easier for a person with a disability
What is assistive devices?
200
Focuses on helping persons regain or maintain the ability to communicate which others, chew and swallow.
What is speech or language therapy?
300
Measures that health care workers take to help a person regain health, strength and function; the means by which rehabilitation is achieved
What is Restorative care?
300
Artificial replacements for lets, feet, arms, or other body parts
What is prosthetic devices?
300
Adjusting to living with a disability can be difficult and this helps persons deal with depression, anger or other feelings
What is emotional therapy?
400
Phase that ccurs in the first 24 hours after surgery, an illness, or a serious illness and lasts through the first week
What is the acute phase and sub-acute phase of restorative care?
400
A condition that occurs when a joint is held in the same position for too long a time, the tendons shorten and become stiff, possibly causing permanent loss of motion in the joint.
What is a contracture?
400
Rehabilitation specialty that focuses on helping a person regain or maintain the skills needed for every day life including those related to activities of daily living (ADLs)
What is occupational therapy?
500
The phase in which the intense work of rehabilitation begins.
What is the chronic phase of restorative care?
500
Vocation
What is a job?
500
Helps the person to learn skills that he or she will need to work, to find a new job, a new place to live or a new mode of transportation that will allow him or her to live independently