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Rehabilitation or Rehab may refer to:
• Drug rehabilitation, for dependency on psychoactive substances such as alcohol, prescription drugs, and
illicit drugs such as cocaine, heroin or amphetamines.
• Fire department rehab is a firefighting service providing firefighters with immediate medical attention on
the fireground.
• Land rehabilitation, the process of restoring land after some process (business, industry, natural disaster etc.)
has damaged it.
• Occupational therapy, therapy aimed at giving people "skills for the job of living".
• Physical therapy, treatment aimed at the attainment or recovery of optimal neuromusculoskeletal function.
• 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 engineering is the application of engineering sciences to design, develop, adapt, test,
evaluate, apply, and distribute technological solutions to problems confronted by individuals with
disabilities.
• 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,
e.g. to victims of Soviet repressions. The actual meaning is "exoneration" or "exculpation".
• Stroke rehabilitation, the process of recovering from a stroke.
• Telerehabilitation is the delivery of rehabilitation services over telecommunication networks and the
internet.
• Vocational rehabilitation, the process of helping people with disabilities (typically Veterans) to find and
keep suitable jobs.
• Wildlife rehabilitation, treatment of injured wildlife with the purpose of preparing it to return to the wild.
Political Rehab
Is the process by which a member of a political organization or government who has fallen into disgrace is
restored to public life. It is usually applied to leaders or other prominent individuals who regain their
prominence after a period in which they have no influence or standing. Historically, the concept is usually
associated with Communist states and parties where, as a result of shifting political lines often as part of a
power struggle, leading members of the Communist Party find themselves on the losing side of a political
conflict and out of favour (often to the point of being denounced or even imprisoned) as a result. These
individuals may be rehabilitated either as a result of capitulating to the dominant political line and renouncing
their former beliefs or allegiances to disgraced leaders, or they may be rehabilitated as a result of a change in
the political leadership of the party, either a change in personnel or a change in political line, so that the views
or associations which caused the individual, or group of individuals, to fall into disgrace are viewed more
sympathetically.
Well known figures who have been rehabilitated include Deng Xiaoping who fell into disgrace during the
Cultural Revolution for being a "third roader" but was rehabilitated subsequently and became paramount leader
of the People's Republic of China.
In the Soviet Union following the death of Stalin, the process of destalinization pursued after the 20th Party
Congress included the rehabilitation of numerous individuals who had been purged. Furthermore, several entire
nationality groups that had been deported to Siberia, Kazakhstan, and Central Asia during World War II (see
population transfer in the Soviet Union) were rehabilitated in the late 1950s. Many of those groups were also

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allowed to return to their former homelands, and many had their former autonomous regions restored, but some
did not (e.g., Volga Germans and Crimean Tatars).[1]
References
1. Robert Conquest, The Nation Killers: The Soviet Deportation of Nationalities (London: MacMillan,
1970) (ISBN 0-333-10575-3); S. Enders Wimbush and Ronald Wixman, "The Meskhetian Turks: A
New Voice in Central Asia," Canadian Slavonic Papers 27, Nos. 2 and 3 (Summer and Fall, 1975):
320-340; and Alexander Nekrich, The Punished Peoples: The Deportation and Fate of Soviet Minorities
at the End of the Second World War (New York: W. W. Norton, 1978) (ISBN 0-393-00068-0).