Health care to help patients regain abilities after a disease or injury. Includes many different kinds of therapy, as well as education to help patients and families cope at home or at work.
Rehabilitation sector: An area for physical and mental recuperation at a fire scene, usually equipped with beverages, and chairs, isolated from environmental extremes (cold, heat, noise, smoke). This rest area enables firefighters to relax, cool off (or warm up) and regain hydration by way of preventing injury. An EMT may be assigned to monitor firefighter vitals when they enter and leave rehab.
abbreviated form of REHAB ILITATION. In the fire service personnel performing for long periods at a high energy (and/or stress) level are frequently cycled through a REHAB station. REHAB stations usually attempt to re-hydrate, re-supply, re-fresh, and re-turn able personnel to operations. It is also where they may be medically evaluated and assigned to remain in REHAB, resume firefighting activities, or be sent to hospital should they have progressed passed the stage of being REHABILITATED on-scene.
the process of returning someone to normal health status after disease or injury. May involve physical, massage or electro therapy. Someone in rehab status may be a fall risk due to an over-zealousness to return to normal activity.
short for rehabilitation, an auditing action which is used to help a person regain a former ability, state of being or more optimum condition which has been discredited, denied or suppressed.