Rehabilitation Services

Rehabilitation services provide counselling and training programs to individuals seeking to improve their health as well mobility. Rehabilitation services provide a range of support and recovery programs and options for individual who are recovering from illness, accident or substance abuse and addiction issues.

Rehabilitation services can therefore over a wide range of treatments including cognitive therapies, counselling, occupational therapy, pain management, physical and physiotherapy, stress management, and therapeutic exercise. Common conditions that are treated by rehabilitation specialists include amputations, cardiac rehabilitation, drug and alcohol addiction, spinal cord injuries, sports injuries, stroke recovery, and musculoskeletal pain, surgical rehabilitation and traumatic brain injury.

Rehabilitation services will generally fall into two broad steams – mental health and medical. Mental health rehabilitation includes: psychotherapeutic drug and alcohol rehabilitation, neuropsychology therapy aimed at improving neurocognitive function that has been lost or diminished by disease or traumatic injury and psychiatric rehabilitation dealing with restoration of mental health and life skills. Medical rehabilitation includes: orthotics and rehabilitation robotics using static and robotic devices to augment rehabilitation, pharmacotherapies for drug and alcohol rehabilitation, and physical medicine and rehabilitation, for the management of disorders that alter the function and performance of an individual.