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"Rehabilitation, is ""a set of measures that assist individuals, who experience or are likely to experience disability, to achieve and maintain optimum functioning in interaction with their environments"". Rehabilitation measures are aimed at prevention of the loss of function, slowing the rate of loss of function, improvement or restoration of function, compensation for lost function and maintenance of current function. Rehabilitation is always voluntary and some individuals may require support with decision-making about rehabilitation choices. In all cases rehabilitation should help empower a person with a disability and his or her family. Rehabilitation is crosssectoral and may be carried out by health professionals in conjunction with specialists in education, employment, social welfare and other fields. Rehabilitation process assists stroke survivors re-gain skills that are lost when brain is damaged. The aims of rehabilitation are to assist stroke survivors become self-reliant and to attain the prime possible quality of life. Even though rehabilitation does not totally ""heal"" the after effects of stroke and does not reverse brain damage, it can considerably help survivors to attain the best feasible quality of life on a long-term basis. Rehabilitation psychology is the study and application of psychological principles on behalf of persons who have disability due to injury or illness. Rehabilitation psychologists, often as teams, assess and treat cognitive, emotional and functional difficulties and help people to overcome barriers to participate in life activities. Rehabilitation psychologists are involved in practice, research and advocacy, with the broad goal of fostering independence and opportunity for people with disabilities"

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