Brain Injury Rehabilitation

The inpatient program is the foundation on which this comprehensive system of care for brain injury has been built. Upon admission to the Brain Injury program, each patient and family is assigned to a interdisciplinary team of experienced clinicians, who begin setting, achieving and evaluating rehabilitation goals. They are experts in brain/behavior relationships, in medication options, and in understanding the complexities and the long term effects of brain injury.

The clinical staff on the inpatient brain injury teams are experts in treating the early stages of recovery from a brain injury. Each inpatient team has the patient and family at the center, and includes rehabilitation nurses, rehab techs, speech and language pathologists, physical therapists, occupational therapists, dieticians, a community reintegration specialist, patient and family service counselors, a broad based medical consulting staff, and insurance case managers.

Advances in medical technology mean that people who, in the past, would have died from their brain injuries are now surviving. But medical treatment cannot guarantee future quality of life. That’s where rehabilitation can help.

The goal of rehabilitation is to help people re-learn skills lost as a result of their injury, so as to minimize the effects of the brain injury.