initial basic provisions, the implementation of which contributes to the high organization and ensuring the effectiveness of rehabilitation activities. These principles include:
1) early start of rehabilitation measures – rehabilitation measures should begin in case of congenital pathology – from the first days of a child’s life, in an adult – at the last stage of treatment and complement it. The purpose of early intervention is to reduce the complications of a disease or injury, to prevent the development of irreversible organic, psychological and functional changes, the phenomena of “hospitalism”;
2) continuity and complexity of the assistance provided – coordinated implementation of rehabilitation measures by specialists of different profiles and at different levels – institutional, intradepartmental, interdepartmental;
3) step-by-step, continuity and completeness – rationally parallel implementation of complex rehabilitation measures with a constantly increasing functional and semantic load, from simple processes to complex ones. Each stage and type of rehabilitation should be focused on a specific really possible task, in the solution of which a new one is set. The duration of the rehabilitation process is determined by the need in each case – from several weeks to many years;
4) individual approach – the choice of a set of rehabilitation measures and the place of their implementation is determined by the whole variety of psychophysical, personal and social characteristics of the rehabilitated;
5) the unity of psychosocial and biological methods of rehabilitation implies the provision of assistance outside inpatient institutions, in a natural environment.