In medicine, rehabilitation aims at the recovery of functionality.
Rehabilitation is the action and effect of rehabilitating . This verb refers to restoring someone or something to its old state , enabling it again.
For example: “After the accident, I had to undergo a two-year rehabilitation to walk again” , “The rehabilitation of the building requires a million-dollar investment” , “The singer decided to suspend his tour to enter rehabilitation” .
Rehabilitation in medicine
For medicine , rehabilitation is a process whose purpose is for the patient to recover a function or activity that has been lost due to an illness or trauma . This is health care aimed at the consequences of a disorder that generates disability or dysfunction.
If a person suffers a car accident and becomes bedridden, rehabilitation will attempt to restore the individual's ability to move. Doctors, therefore, will perform various tasks and accompany the injured person to comply with certain guidelines that will ensure that the extremities regain strength and respond to the person's commands.
Rehabilitation is also the care intended for a patient to overcome their addiction to drugs or alcohol . It generally requires hospitalization in a safe environment (so that the individual does not have access to harmful substances) and, sometimes, involves the supply of legal drugs until toxicological dependence is eliminated.
Urban rehabilitation contributes to improving the quality of life of residents.
The concept in urban planning
In urban planning , rehabilitation is the work carried out to improve the building and habitability conditions of a home . These processes usually develop in old buildings or buildings damaged by some phenomenon.
It should be noted that one of the most important types of urban rehabilitation is that of historic centers . Thanks to it, the oldest parts of a city recover the splendor of other times, improve the quality of life of its neighbors and also become relevant spaces at a tourist level.
The beautification of buildings and squares, the recovery of monuments that were abandoned or neglected or the use of old buildings as cultural or social centers are some of the measures that are usually carried out within this type of rehabilitation that concerns us. . To achieve all this, not only the support of the different public administrations but also that of the neighborhood associations themselves is essential.
Rehabilitation in law
Within the scope of law, the use of the term rehabilitation is also used. In this case, it is used to record that the action of giving back to a person something that belonged to them and that had been taken away has been carried out. This is what is known as legal rehabilitation .
However, also in that sector we would have to talk about political and social rehabilitation . It consists of legally regranting to an individual the capacity and credit of which he was deprived so that he can once again enjoy his rights or positions.