An Urgent Rehabilitation Technique Education Program was conducted in response to the needs of the enormous number of the Wenchuan earthquake patients and the shortage of rehabilitation professionals. This program referred to an urgent training program of several rehabilitation techniques that was beneficial to earthquake victims. This short-term program covered the basic clinical technical trainings in physiotherapy, occupational therapy, prosthetics and orthotics, which were included in concentrated technical training, decentralized technical training, and disaster area technical advising. More than 1,500 health-care professionals in Sichuan province took this education program at different locations, which can improve the shortage of rehabilitation professionals, addressing to the clinical need of the earthquake patients, improving local rehabilitation technique, and standardized of the rehabilitation treatments for earthquake patients. This program could be considered as an economical and effective method to help the disaster situation especially there was shortage of health professionals.
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