Understanding Rehabilitation care in Medical Healthcare

Rehabilitation care practitioners

A rehabilitation care practitioner is a health worker who provides care and treatment which aims to enhance and restore functional ability and quality of life to those with physical impairments or disabilities. These include physiotherapists, prosthetic ,  occupational therapists, recreational therapists, audiologists, speech and language pathologists, respiratory therapists, rehabilitation counselors  physiotherapy technicians, prosthetic technicians, personal care assistants, and others.

A physical disability is any impairment which limits the physical function of one or more limbs or fine or gross motor ability. Other physical disabilities include impairments which limit other facets of daily living, such as respiratory disorders and epilepsy.

Types of physical disabilities

Mobility impairment is a category of disability that includes people with varying types of physical disabilities. This type of disability includes upper limb disability, manual dexterity and disability in co-ordination with different organs of the body. Disability in mobility can either be a congenital or acquired with age problem. This problem could also be the consequence of some disease. People who have a broken skeletal structure also fall into this category of disability.

Visual impairment is another type of physical impairment. There are hundreds of thousands of people that greatly suffer from minor to various serious vision injuries or impairments. These types of injuries can also result into some severe problems or diseases like blindness and ocular trauma, to name a few. Some of the common types of vision impairments include scratched cornea, scratches on the sclera, diabetes-related eye conditions, dry eyes and corneal graft.

Hearing impairment is the category of physical impairment that includes people that are completely or partially deaf. People who are only partly deaf can sometimes make use of hearing-aids to improve their hearing ability.


There are certain rules and regulation in this section under healthcare insurance benefits , which are predefined and are mentioned in their policy notes . Every individual must read these carefully and if in any case they have doubt over any note they may call to their Healthcare insurance providers and let them explain you . Normally there are certain limitations under this section like some dollar amount is payable or in a year up to  some dollar amount is fixed or in a year only one visit or one service is covered . There may be some other limitations or exceptions can be there depending upon policy or plan individual or group had chosen.