Abstract
Intractable medical problems such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, chronic pain syndrome etc. are common in modem “aging” society and lead to a disabled condition in most cases. Disablement has been conceptualized by the World Health Organization in terms of impairment (organ dysfunction), disability (difficulty with tasks), and handicap (social disadvantage). Rehabilitation medicine is a restorative and learning system which seeks to hasten and maximize recovery from certain pathologies. Its basic medical approach consists in adequate stimulation of sanogenesis which includes four principal components: restitution, regeneration, compensation, and immunity. Hence, the individual rehabilitation program can be defined as a set of measures for hastening the restitution, activation of the reparative and regenerative processes, revealing and intensification of the compensatory mechanisms, correction of the natural resistance and immunity. For practical purpose, it is reasonable to distinguish three therapeutic circles for stimulation of sanogenetic processes: physical (acupuncture, electrotherapy and other modalities, therapeutic exercise, massage), chemical (nutrition, phototherapy, probiotics, and efferent therapy), and information (psychotherapy, chronotherapy, bioresonance therapy, and homeopathy).
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