Six months after a hemiplegic stroke, a 58-year-old man is enrolled in a programme providing gait training, exercises of daily living activities, speech therapy and vocational counselling to enable his return to work. This component of care is termed:
- A Disability limitation
- B Health protection
- C Rehabilitation ✓
- D Specific protection
Correct answer: C. Rehabilitation
Explanation
Rehabilitation is the combined and coordinated use of medical, social, educational and vocational measures for training the disabled person to the maximum functional capacity so that he can lead as normal a life as possible; it includes activities of daily living training, speech therapy and vocational retraining. Disability limitation operates earlier, aiming to arrest the disease process and prevent impairment from progressing to disability, for example drug therapy to halt the lesion in leprosy.
Reference: Park's Textbook of Preventive and Social Medicine, 27th ed.
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