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BRAIN INJURY REHABILITATION

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Rehabilitation channels the body's natural healing abilities and the brain's relearning processes so an individual may recover as quickly and efficiently as possible. Learning new ways to compensate for abilities that have permanently changed due to brain injury are also involved in this. The focus of rehabilitation is to enable individuals to perform their activities of daily living safely and independently.  So that, they could move on to other forms of rehabilitation or transition to their home. Based on a person’s ability to participate in a rehabilitation program, there are several rehabilitation options. Acute Rehabilitation Acute rehabilitation will begin in the individuals who sustain brain injuries as early as possible in their recovery process. The treatment is provided in a special unit of a trauma hospital, a rehabilitation hospital, or another inpatient setting. A team of health professionals with experience and training in brain injury works with ...

Difference Between a Brain Injury and Head Injury

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Brain is complex and have unique connection of nerves, blood vessels and tissues. It is the center of nervous system and it receives, processes and sends messages to every cell and every part of the body. The information received is from any of our seven senses: sight (visual), sound (auditory), touch (tactile), smell (olfactory), movement (kinesthetic), taste (gustatory) and intuition (spiritual).   Any type of injury to the head or brain can be extremely serious. So always want to get medical attention immediately if anyone suffered any trauma to head. A medical professional can determine whether the trauma resulted in a head injury or a brain injury by doing diagnostic and imaging tests. Head injury and brain injury are often used interchangeably though they are technically different. The following are some distinctions between these two injuries. Head Injury A head injury is an injury to the skull. Skulls have been developed and designed to protect our brain...

Traumatic brain injury Management

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Traumatic brain injury is common and a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Management is based on avoidance of secondary injury, maintenance of cerebral perfusion pressure, and optimization of cerebral oxygenation. Multimodality monitoring of the injured brain enables individualized therapeutic targets to be set to optimize patient management. Patients with moderate or severe brain injury should be managed in a specialist neurosurgical center. Traumatic brain injury (TBI)                     Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the leading cause of death and disability in young adults in the developed world. It can be divided into primary and secondary brain injury. The primary injury occurs as a consequence of the initial physical insult. The pattern and extent of damage will depend on the nature, intensity, and duration of the impact. Compression and shearing forces may...