Brain Injury Rehabilitation

Brain Injury Rehabilitation

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a complex injury with a broad spectrum of symptoms and disabilities. The impact on a person and his or her family can be devastating. Spalding Rehabilitation Hospital has a full range of services for the brain injury survivor. 

• Spalding’s Inpatient Program is for individuals who require 24 hour nursing care, a physician to manage ongoing medical problems, and rehabilitative therapies. The program in unique in its approach to using controlled stimulation protocols to manage the early stages of brain injury recovery.
• For those patients who require continued multidisciplinary therapies and supervision during the day, our Day Rehabilitation Program is available
• Individuals who need one or two types of therapies can access those services through our Outpatient Therapy Department.
• The Brain Injury Support Group is available for ongoing interaction with other brain injury survivors and caregivers.

Brain injury rehabilitation involves two essential processes:

• Restoration of functions that can be restored
• Learning how to do things differently when functions cannot be restored to pre-injury levels.

While practice in various cognitive tasks-doing arithmetic problems, solving logic puzzles, concentration skills, or reading-may help brain rehabilitation, this is usually not enough. 

Basic skills must be strengthened before more complex skills are added. This pattern of functional strengths and weaknesses becomes the foundation for designing a program of brain rehabilitation. 

Brain recovery follows patterns of brain development. Gross or large-scale systems must develop (or be retrained) before fine systems. Attention, focus, and perceptual skills develop (or are retrained) before complex intellectual activity can be successful.