Rehabilitative treatments are  performed on the elderly with acute health problems, such as stroke, paralysis, fracture, neurological defects, etc. Without the treatments, the problems may become chronic, and the elderly might become weaker and eventually bed-ridden and would require institutional care.

Rehabilitative treatments include bending, flexing, stretching and raising exercises on the affected limbs with the patient in lying, sitting and standing position. Eventually, the patient would progress to walking exercises in a later stage.