Social workers working in a rehabilitation setting with people who have physical disabilities face many identity challenges. This explains why a research project focused on grasping a better understanding of the perception these social workers have of their own professional identity. From a constructivist grounded theory standpoint, two phases of data collection allowed us to identify an emerging core category, social rehabilitation. Resting on two identity pillars and characterized by five core tensions, this type of rehabilitation is conceptualized through the symbolic interactionist theories of Strauss (1992) and Dubar (2000).