Benefit of Rehabilitation
                     BENEFIT OF 
REHABILITATION
INTRODUCTION
Rehabilitation is defined as ‘a set of 
interventions designed to optimize 
functioning and reduce disability in 
individuals with health conditions in 
interaction with their environment’ 
Rehabilitation helps a child, adult or 
older person to be as independent 
as possible in daily life activities and 
allows them to participate in work, 
recreation and life roles
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MAJOR AREAS OF 
FOCUS
1. Preventing, recognizing, and 
managing comorbid illness and 
medical complication.
2. Training for maximum 
independence.
3. Facilitating maximum 
psychosocial coping and 
adaptation by patient and 
family.
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MAJOR AREAS OF 
FOCUS CONT.
1. Preventing secondary disability 
by promoting community 
reintegration, including 
resumption of home, family, 
recreational, and vocational 
activities.
2. Enhancing quality of life in view 
of residual disability.
3. Preventing recurrent conditions.
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PHYSICAL 
BENEFITS
1. Increase Physical Capacity 
2. Reduces Pain
3. Strengthens muscles
4. Improves balance
5. Reduces risk of falls
6. Improves coordination
7. Improves flexibility and joint 
mobility
8. Reduces swelling in the affected 
joints and muscles
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PHYSICAL 
BENEFITS CONT.
1. Reduces swelling in the affected 
joints and muscles
2. Prevents deformities and limb 
problems 
3. Improves gait 
4. Improves posture
5. Reduction of unnecessary 
complications
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PSYCHOLOGICAL 
BENEFITS
1. Enhances your self-confidence 
and your ability to deal 
psychologically with your illness 
or injury.
2. Provides you with greater 
independence – returns you to 
your pre-injury state of mental 
wellbeing.
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LIFESTYLE 
BENEFITS
1. Improved Participation 
2. Decreased dependence
3. Improved quality of life
4. Quicker return to work which 
can reduce financial concerns 
and increase social participation
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ECONOMIC 
BENEFITS
1. enable a person to return to 
work, get into work or stay in 
work reduce the cost of nursing, 
residential and social care
2. reduce the risk of falls
3. reduce the associated costs of 
mental health illness
4. reduce the costs associated with 
diabetic care
5. reduce length-of-stay costs
6. realise the potential of children 
and young people
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WHY IS 
REHABILITATION 
SO IMPORTANT?
It enables them to do so by 
addressing underlying conditions 
and improving their way of 
performing everyday activities, 
supporting them to overcome 
difficulties with thinking, 
communicating or walking around. 
Any person may need rehabilitation 
at some point in their lives such as 
due to injury, surgery, any disease 
or decrease in mobility due to age 
factor.
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