Brain Injury and Rehabilitation

Brain Injury is a disturbance or problem with inside the regular characteristic of the mind that may be because of a blow, bump or jolt to the top, the top all at once and violently hitting an item or while an item enters mind tissue. 

Rehabilitation a hard and fast of interventions designed to optimize functioning and decrease incapacity in people with fitness situations in interplay with their environment. There are numerous rehabilitation alternatives primarily based totally on someone’s capacity to take part in a rehabilitation application.

Some examples of rehabilitation include:  

• Exercises to enhance someone’s speech, language and communique after mind damage.
• Modifying an older person’s domestic surroundings to enhance their protection and independence at domestic and to lessen their threat of falls.
• Exercise schooling and schooling on healthful dwelling for someone with a coronary heart ailment.
• Making, becoming and instructing a person to apply prosthesis after a leg amputation.
• Positioning and splinting strategies to help with pores and skin healing, lessen swelling, and to regain motion after burn surgery.
• Prescribing remedy to lessen muscle stiffness for a kid with cerebral palsy.
• Psychological aid for someone with depression.
• Training with inside the use of a white cane, for someone with imaginative and prescient loss.

Related Associations:

Neuropathy Association and Nevus Outreach, Inc, Brain Injury Resource Center and Brain Trauma Foundation, Epilepsy Therapy Project and Exceptional Parent Magazine , Huntington's Disease Society of America Hydrocephalus Association, Multiple Sclerosis Association of America and Multiple Sclerosis Foundation, Multiple System Atrophy Coalition, Acoustic Neuroma Association and ADA Disability and Business Technical Assistance Program; Aicardi Syndrome Foundation and Alliance for Aging Research; ALS Association and ALS Therapy Development Institute; Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood Foundation and Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation.