Rehab and How to Avoid Needing It

Presented by Ben Harnage

The bulk of this material is information gathered from the sources listed on the last page of this presentation. Therefore, some synopses are not in quotation marks, even though they are taken from those references.

Ø Rehabilitation

Ø Three major types of rehabilitation

o Occupational Therapy

o Physical Therapy

o Speech-Language Therapy

Ø What you can look forward to as a patient

Ø Get supplemental insurance

o Most insurance only provides 40 visits

Ø Roizen and Oz (2005) point out that 80% of age related disease [that can put you into rehab] are

o Aging of our heart and blood vessels

o Aging of our immune system

o Aging caused by environmental or social issues (accidents and social factors like stress) (p.7)

Ø ** All of our systems are interconnected! What effects one part of our body effects the rest of the body!**

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