Some other objectives are –

• To eliminate disability
• To reduce or remove disability to the greatest extent
• To retrain the person with residual physical abilities and build his capabilities.

Principal of Rehabilitation:

• It should be started at the earliest time in order to ensure the best result
• To be administered in conjunction with specific medical and surgical treatment, specific for a disability.
• To give attention and listen to patients carefully.
• Building up the patient to the highest possible level of functional activity.
• Knowing the socio-economic standard of the disabled and
• Training and retraining in a particular task (job-oriented)

Levels of Prevention

The primary level of prevention:

These are the actions taken to reduce the occurrence of impairment.

• Vaccination and immunization
• Sanitation and safe water
• Health education
• Proper nutrition
• Awareness

Secondary level of prevention:

It is the control of or limiting the consequences of impairment once it has occurred.

• Early treatment
• Effective drug therapy
• Correction of deformity

Tertiary level of prevention:

Here the treatment aims at preventing the occurrence from becoming handicapped.

• • Therapeutic measures are provided by physiotherapists, occupational therapists, and speech therapists.
  • Training in self-care activities i.e. ADL’s.
  • Providing technical aids i.e. orthoses and prosthesis.
  • Social and vocational confidence
  • Providing education and suitable job for the handicap
  • Education for improving the attitude of the family toward the patient