| | | | Rehabilitation Therapies is the study of the practices and principles that restore a person to a healthy state. It also includes treating individuals so that they can return to normal duties after being effected by accident or disease. Skills learned include: teaching, assisting and monitoring a patient's progress in learning or relearning the skills of normal function, communicating with patients, their relatives and other medical and health professionals, selecting appropriate forms of therapy, and advising and instructing on the use of aids, educating the community in the prevention of movement disorders, evaluating and interpreting a patient's emotional, psychological, developmental and physical capabilities, planning and administering treatment programmes on an individual or group basis, monitoring and recording patients' activities, responses and progress. The main purpose of this field of study is to develop an understanding of normal and abnormal movement and mobility, and the musculoskeletal system, the principles and practice of rehabilitation using a variety of creative activities, the development of speech and its interrelationship with language and personality development and human nutritional requirements.
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