Lecture 23: Principles Of Rehabilitation

Question 1

Paticipation and actibity

Answer 1

• participation is contingent upon an ability to perform activities
• activity is the execution of a task or action by an individual
• to perform an activity, you need a body and an environment

Question 2

Environmental factors

Answer 2

• products and technology
• attitudes
• services, systems and policies
• natural environment and human made changes
• support and relationships

Question 3

Body level factors

Answer 3

• cardiorespiratory
• renovascular
• genitourinary
• reproductive
• MSK, senses
• metabolic, endocrine
• GI, Skin
• hematological, immune

Question 4

Activities

Answer 4

• domestic life
• self care
• communication
• mobility
• general tasks and demands
• civic, social and community life
• interpersonal interactions and relationships
• learning and applying knowledge

Question 5

Impairment

Answer 5

A loss of abnormality of body structure or of a physiological or psychological function

Question 6

Rehabilitation - definition

Answer 6

• a goal-oriented and time-limited process aimed at enabling an impaired person to reach an optimum mental, physical and/or social functional level, thus providing her or him with the tools to change her or his own life
• can involve measures intended to compensate for a LOF and other measures to facilitate social adjustment