Das Recht der Berufsgruppen in der medizinischen Rehabilitation

This work deals with the “law of professionals” in the medical rehabilitation process in Germany. The wide-spread assumption that medical rehabilitation is conducted by cross-professional teams only under the supervision of a medical doctor is critically examined. The aim is to investigate the required conditions under which the different occupational groups should be entitled to be regarded as care providers within the social law system. In this context, the concept of medical rehabilitation is thoroughly discussed and specified. The main legal sources to be analysed are social law (especially SGB IX, SGB V, SGB VI), professional law [direktes Berufsrecht] for selected occupational groups and constitutional law. Existing tensions between the legal regulations are examined. The results show that the law considers medical rehabilitation an occupational field which covers the entirety of the so-called “Heilberufe” [health professions] and is complemented by the work of additional occupational groups.