Whenever an individual gets seriously ill or becomes injured, they may seek emergency care, or receive immediate life-sustaining treatment. Later on at some point in the future, they are left to take care of themselves to finalize that healing process.

At the time these patients are discharged from their medical treatment, they have gradually shifted into a zone where they may no longer be sick, but are still not as healthy as they were before they became ill. This zone, between illness and good health, is where rehabilitation specialists focus.

"...Up until the late 80's, it was not officially forbidden, but you were always like marked: 'Ah, he's interested in jazz. He's with Western culture. He's potentially enemy of the state.' ...Jazz music more than any other form of art makes a person free. Playing music or listening to it you don't have to adhere to Soviet laws. And those laws were so artificial, so brutal, so unnatural. Here, listening or playing you could be yourself. You're free. You're free from that nonsense."

-Trumpeter Valery Ponomarev