Rehabilitation is rehabilitation medicine, a new discipline. In the case that individual therapy cannot solve various problems encountered in returning to society after discharge, rehabilitation treatment is needed. The objects of rehabilitation treatment include many diseases, which can be roughly divided into physical disability and mental disability.
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The diseases that lead to physical disability mainly include cerebrovascular disorder (stroke), head trauma, brain tumor and so on. With unilateral paralysis or dysphagia; Spinal cord injury and tumor with bilateral paralysis or quadriplegia; Chronic rheumatoid arthritis, deformed spondylitis, deformed arthropathy, fracture, scapulohumeral periarthritis, lumbago, etc.
Amputation caused by trauma or vascular disease; Refractory diseases of nervous system include Parkinson's disease, spinocerebellar degeneration, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Guillain-Barre syndrome and other polyneuritis. Children's diseases include cerebral palsy, spina bifida, muscular dystrophy and Down syndrome.
In mental disability, not only mental illness such as schizophrenia or manic depression or epilepsy, but also aphasia or memory disorder caused by cerebrovascular injury or head injury has become the object of rehabilitation treatment. In addition, Alzheimer's disease, which is a serious disease in an aging society, and other diseases that can lead to dementia are also included in the scope of rehabilitation treatment.
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