Block Fourteen Flashcards
Rehabilitation and Restorative Care (36 cards)
Rehabilitation
Care that is given by specialists to help restore or improve function after an illness or injury.
Restoration
The action of returning something to a former owner, place, or condition - helping a resident regain health.
Restorative Care
Measures that health care workers take to help a person regain health, strength, and function.
Occupational Therapist (OT)
A licensed professional who helps residents to learn to adapt to disabilities.
Occupational Therapy (OT)
A form of therapy or those recuperating from physical or mental illness that encourages rehabilitation through the performance of activities required in daily life.
Physical Therapist (PT)
A licensed professional who evaluates and treats a resident to increase movement/circulation/promote healing.
Physical Therapy (PT)
A form of therapy, which promotes optimal health and functional independence through the application of scientific principles to prevent, identify, assess, correct, or alleviate acute or chronic movement dysfunction, physical disability, or pain.
Speech Therapy (SLP)
Training to help people with speech and language problems to speak more clearly.
Ability
The means or skill to be able to do something.
Disabled/Disability
A physical or mental condition that limits a person’s movements, senses, or activities.
Ambulate/Ambulation
walk; move about.
Gait
Manner of walking
Mobility Skills
The ability to move in one’s environment with ease and without restriction.
Cane
A length of cane or a slender stick, especially one used as a support, or as a walking stick.
Crutches
A long stick with a crosspiece at the top, used as a support under the armpit by a lame person.
Walker
A frame used by disabled or infirm people for support while walking, typically made of metal tubing with small wheels or rubber-tipped feet.
Trapeze
A triangular device suspended over a bed to allow the resident to pull their upper body up.
Assistive/Adaptive Devices
Special equipment that helps a person who is ill or disabled to perform ADL’s.
Alignment
Arrangement in a straight line, or in correct or appropriate relative positions.
Supportive devices
Devices used when positioning a person to help the person maintain proper body alignment, such as rolled sheets, towels, or blankets. Devices that help to stabilize a weak joint or limb.
Amputation
The surgical removal of some or all of a body part, usually a hand, arm, leg, or foot.
Amputee
A person who has had a limb amputated.
Phantom Pain
Pain in a limb (or extremity) that has been amputated.
Prosthesis
A device that replaces a body part that is missing or deformed because of an accident, injury, illness, or birth defect; used to improve a person’s ability to function and/or his appearance.
