What Is Rehab?

Published June 18, 2013

Question by Arcangel: What is rehab?
What is Rehab?

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Answer by grianagh50
There are different types of “Rehab” Rehab is short for Rehabilitation. Some folks need to be rehabilitated from drugs and alcohol, some folks need to rehabilitated from sports injuries or strokes. Rehabilitation’s is there to make the person stronger or to teach them how to deal with their weaknesses.

Answer by gangadharan_nair
Rehabilitation (Rehab) may refer to:
* Drug rehabilitation, for dependency on psychoactive substances such as alcohol, prescription drugs, and illicit drugs such as cocaine, heroin or amphetamines.
* Physical therapy, treatment aimed at the recovery of musculoskeletal function, particularly recovery from joint, tendon, or ligament repair.
* Physical medicine and rehabilitation, a branch of medicine dealing with restoration of function despite physical disability.
* Psychiatric rehabilitation, a branch of psychiatry dealing with restoration of mental health and life skills after mental illness.
* Rehabilitation (neuropsychology), therapy aimed at improving neurologic function that has been lost or diminished by disease or traumatic injury.
* Rehabilitation (penology), the rehabilitation of criminal behavior.

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