What is rehabilitation?

• A. Diagnosing injuries.
• B. Prescribing medications.
• C. Assisting athletes to improve daily living abilities.
• D. Restoring water balance in tissue.

Answer: (C)

Rehabilitation is the therapeutic process that helps someone recover function after injury, illness, or surgery so they can perform daily activities and return to sport. It targets restoring movement, strength, flexibility, balance, and endurance, and it guides progressive, functional tasks and sport-specific activities to enable independence and safe participation.

The option that best fits this description is assisting athletes to improve daily living abilities, because it centers on restoring independence in everyday tasks and enabling a return to activity, which is the core aim of rehab. Diagnosing injuries, prescribing medications, and altering tissue water balance are not rehabilitation activities themselves—diagnosis and medical management lie outside rehab, and managing tissue hydration is more about edema control rather than the broader goal of functional restoration.