3-2: Rehabilitation and Chronic Illness (Part 1)

Question 1

List the goals of physical rehabilitation for the chronically ill (5)

Answer 1

• To learn how to use one’s body as much as possible.
• To learn how to sense changes in the environment in order to make the appropriate physical accommodations.
• To learn new physical management skills.
• To learn a necessary treatment regimen.
• To learn how to control the expenditure of energy.

Question 2

Describe the unpleasant side effects of chemotherapy and radiation therapy.

Answer 2

Cancer patients who receive radiation therapy must cope with burning of the skin, gastrointestinal problems, and other temporary disturbances. Chemotherapy can produce changes in taste acuity and taste aversions, sometimes leading to anorexia. It may also produce nausea, vomiting, hair loss, and skin discoloration.

Question 3

physical rehabilitation

Answer 3

A program of activities for chronically ill or disabled persons geared toward helping them use their bodies as much as possible, sense changes in the environment and in themselves so as to make appropriate physical accommodations, learn new physical and management skills if necessary, pursue a treatment regimen, and learn how to control the expenditure of energy.