Rehabilitation
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Rehabilitation may refer to:
- Drug rehabilitation, for dependency on psychoactive substances such as alcohol, prescription drugs, and illicit drugs such as cocaine, heroin or amphetamines.
- Land rehabilitation, the process of restoring land after some process (business, industry, natural disaster etc.) has damaged it.
- Physical therapy, treatment aimed at the recovery of musculoskeletal function, particularly recovery from joint, tendon, or ligament repair.
- Physical medicine and rehabilitation, a branch of medicine dealing with restoration of function despite physical disability.
- Political rehabilitation, the process by which politicians or political party members who have fallen into disgrace are restored to public life.
- Religious rehabilitation which can follow excommunication if the faith's member demonstrates repentance.
- Psychiatric rehabilitation, a branch of psychiatry dealing with restoration of mental health and life skills after mental illness.
- Rehabilitation (neuropsychology), therapy aimed at improving neurologic function that has been lost or diminished by disease or traumatic injury.
- Rehabilitation (penology), the rehabilitation of criminal behavior.
- Rehabilitation (Soviet), a "false friend" often used to translate the Russian word "reabilitatsiya" as applied, eg, to victims of Soviet repressions. The actual meaning is "exoneration" or "exculpation".
- Wildlife rehabilitation, treatment of injured wildlife with the purpose of preparing it to return to the wild.
[edit] Music
- Rehab, a song by Amy Winehouse.
- Rehab, a rap/rock band from Warner Robins, Georgia