Introduction to MedRehab Flashcards
A specialty that focuses on maximizing a person’s independence and reduce disability through medical,
psychological or physical treatments or through modifications to the environment
Rehabilitation Medicine
Aims to enhance and restore functional ability and improve quality of life of those with physical impairments
or disabilities affecting the human body
Rehabilitation Medicine
It is important in all levels of health system (tertiary, secondary, primary and community) and may be
delivered in education, employment and social sectors
Rehabilitation Medicine
Came from the Latin root habil which means to enable
Habilitation
means to ‘re-enable’ or to ‘restore’
Rehabilitation
Its activities that aim at maximizing the functioning of children who acquire impairment congenitally or early in life
Habilitation
its activities aimed at restoring a skill or function that have been lost or impaired because a person was
sick, injured or disabled
Rehabilitation
Acquisition, Maintenance
and Improvement
HABILITATION
New Skill
HABILITATION
Cause: UNATTAINED skills and
functioning for daily living
HABILITATION
Restoration, Maintenance and
Improvement
REHABILITATION
Old Skill
REHABILITATION
CAUSE: LOST or IMPAIRED skills and functioning for daily living
REHABILITATION
It provides a standard language and a conceptual basis for the definition and measurement of health and
disability
International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF)
It is a framework for describing and organizing information on functioning and disability created by the
World Health Organization (WHO) in 2001
International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF)
It integrates the major models of disability and recognizes the role of environmental factors, as well as the
relevance of associated health conditions and their effects to disability
International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF)
refers to disease (acute or chronic), disorder, injury or trauma. May also include other
circumstances such as pregnancy, ageing, stress, congenital anomaly or genetic predisposition
Health Condition
the physiological functions of body systems (including psychological functions
Body functions
anatomical parts of the body such as organs, limbs, and their components
Body structures
problems in the body function and structure such as significant deviation or loss
Impairments
the execution of a task or action by an individual
Activity
difficulties an individual may have in executing activities
Activity limitation
problems an individual may experience in involvement in life situations
Participation restriction
the physical, social, and attitudinal environment which people live and conduct their lives.
These are either barriers to or facilitators of person’s functioning
E.F.
is an umbrella term for body function, body structures, activities and participation. It denotes positive
or neutral aspects of interaction between a person’s health condition(s) and that individual’s contextual factors
(environmental and personal factors)
Functioning
is an umbrella term for impairments, activity limitations and participation restriction. It denotes the
negative aspects of the interaction between a person’s health condition(s) and that individual’s contextual factors
(environmental and personal factors).
Disability