Rehabilitation: The restoration of skills of a person who has had an illness or injury so they regain maximum self-sufficiency and can function in a normal or as near normal manner as possible. (The word comes from the Latin "rehabilitare" meaning to make fit again.)

Collections of Pages for Module 1:

Rehab Science Foundations: healing biodynamics at the cell-tissue-organ-person levels, federal priorities, systems perspective

Field of Clinical Rehab: infrastructure (practitioners, areas, etc.)

Rehabilitation/disability terminology: anatomicial, medical rehab, rehab research, rehab classification models, human performance, movment science

Assistive technology and the HAAT model: definitions, societal factors, principles for rehabilitation engineering, human activity / assitive technology model

Rehabilitative continuum of care as a optimization problem: overview of engineering optimization problem, optimization in the context of allied health practice, relation of models of the rehab continuum of care to optimization

Telehealth in context of optimizing care delivery: history, rehab needs assessment, models, technologies, role of conferencing standards, potential for enhancing rehab science

Other Rehab Links