Recent advances in medical rehabilitation.
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During the war the shortage of manpower directed the attention of allied medicine to what has come to be recognized as the third phase of medical care, the phase that takes the patient from the bed or the Out-patients Department to the job. This includes physical and medical rehabilitation, social adjustment, vocational guidance and re-training where indicated. These Service developments are applicable, with appropriate modifications, to civil life and an enlightened public in Europe, and the United States is increasingly demanding them. Any blueprint for today's medical services must give weight to the problem of rehabilitation, the treatment and resettlement of the whole man in terms of his physical, medical, social, psychological and economic needs. In the past, the term rehabilitation has been somewhat loosely applied to the physical treatment of a local disability but contemporary practice during and since the war has carried the concept very much further, so that Rogerson's definition is now generally accepted:'Rehabilitation is treatment with a purpose. The purpose is to ensure not merely the repair of the diseased organ of a patient, but his fullest possible return to normal life in a setting designed to prevent the recurrence of the disorder. To this end all available resources, physical, psychological and social, have to be employed to the best possible advantage.' Rehabilitation, as understood today, is a form of scientific therapy which should be a part of the skilled medical treatment of all illnesses, whether the patients are dealt with in hospital or in the home. The better the treatment and the earlier the application of rehabilitation, the fewer will be the cases of permanent disability which will require vocational training and the better the results in those so trained.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- The overseas post-graduate medical journal
دوره 2 8 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1947