Rehabilitation is a problem-solving and educational process aimed a reducing the disability and handicap experienced by someone as a result of disease or injury. Rehabilitation is defined as the development of a person to the fullest physical, psychological, social, vocational, avocational, and educational potential consistent with his or her physiologic or anatomic impairment and environmental limitations. Realistic goals are determined by the person and those concerned with his or her care. Thus, one is working to obtain optimal function despite residual disability, even if the impairment is caused by a pathologic process and cannot be reversed.
Rehabilitation is the restoration of normal form and function following disease, illness, or injury.
Rehabilitation is a individualized array of coordinated services aimed primarily at forestalling, minimizing, or reversint the occurence of handicap, disability, and impairment. This last definition by Fuher is the one most compatible with the current application of functional assessment in rehabilitation.