The process is directed towards restoration and compensation of functional abilities of the body using medical methods. The main purpose of medical rehabilitation is to prevent the development of disability, restore the lost functions and bring the patient back to social integration and independent living.
Rehabilitation is not only the medicine.
A number of rehabilitation stages are performed for a person to get back to full-value living. Individual rehabilitation programs are created for each patient; their functional disorders, limiting their abilities, are identified.
1. Psychodiagnostics and psychocorrection;
2. Physical methods of rehabilitation – physiotherapy, massage, balneotherapy;
3. Medication.