Rehabilitation
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Rehabilitation is the restoration of lost capabilities, or the treatment aimed at producing it.
- As to Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and concussions, see Rehabilitation (neuropsychology)
- As to addictions, see Substance-abuse rehabilitation
- As to recovery of musculoskeletal function, particularly in regard to recovery from joint, tendon, or ligament repair, see Physical therapy
- As to criminal behavior, see Rehabilitation (penology)
- As to damaged and deteriorated residences, see Rehabilitation (housing); see also Renovation (housing)
- see land rehabilitation;
- political rehabilitation is the process by which politicians or political party members who have fallen into disgrace are restored to public life.
- Rehabilitation (Soviet), a "false friend" often used to translate the Russian word "reabilitatsiya" as applied, e.g., to victims of Soviet repressisons. The actual meaning is "exoneration" or "exculpation".
- Rehabilitation (medical impairment), such as after an accident, or as part of the normal ageing/ development cycles of the human body.
- Rehabilitation (social impairment), such as the treatment of PTSD, or other psychologically related disorders.
- Rehabilitation (wildlife), healing injured wildlife so the animals may be returned to their natural habitat. Also refers to teaching captive-bred wildlife to survive in their natural habitat so they may be returned there.
- As to mining: The process of mitigating environmental impacts of mineral extraction. See open cut mining.
