Under the Pediatric rehab is understood as a set of medical, socio-economic and other activities aimed at the most rapid and full recovery of ill health and its effective and early return to normal conditions of life, work and study.

The basis of rehabilitation of a sick child should be guided by the following:

Rehabilitation of a sick child should be carried out in institutions with all kinds of restorative treatment, highly skilled, having a sufficient means for effective control, and a well-established links with other care and rehabilitation facilities.

Rehabilitation of a sick child should begin at the earliest stages of the disease, accounting for first natural and organic part of the therapeutic measures, complementing and enriching the complex treatment.

The rehabilitation process should be carried out continuously until it is achieved in the shortest possible time the maximum recovery and capacities of the child.

Rehabilitation, at each stage must be comprehensive, by which is meant, first of all, united for the work of medical workers, teachers, psychologists, sociologists and other members of the rehabilitation process.

Individual character as a rehabilitation program and of the means, taking into account the individual characteristics of the child's personality and characteristics of pathological, morphological and functional changes.

The return of a sick child to his usual living conditions, education, training, sports, and for irreversible changes - adapting to new living conditions.

Rehabilitation of a sick child is divided into three stages.

I. Clinical stage - to achieve the full clinical recovery and restoration of function of the affected systems, training the whole body sick child to the next stage of rehabilitation. The first phase of the rehabilitation ends when the child recovers from the underlying disease, and restoring the function or adequate compensation lost due to sickness Funk.

II. Sanatorium stage - a normalization of the functions of the affected system, along with the normalization of other bodies in other organs and systems. At the completion of phase - the lack of clinical, radiological and other characteristics of the pathological process and its activities.

III. Adaptation phase - achieved full recovery of health of the child, the child's age to his usual living conditions, physical culture and sports.

Particular attention should be paid to the rehabilitation of children with various forms of violations and delays in neuropsychological development in preschool. Medical and educational interventions to improve the health of children carried out by specialists of child health clinics, and the child's family.