about rehabilitation

Rehabilitation is a term used to describe the methods used to enhance and build on a person’s natural recovery.

The nature of rehabilitation varies with the stage in the recovery process. It begins in the hospital setting with proper nutrition and physiotherapy to reduce the likelihood of contractures (high tone in the muscles) and to ensure the person’s chest remains clear.

When the person regains consciousness there may be further intensive physiotherapy, speech and language therapy and occupational therapy to help the person regain basic skills such as washing and dressing.

Once the person has become medically stable the type of rehabilitation required changes and the person will often move from a hospital ward to a rehabilitation centre. Such centres may not be on a hospital site at all.

The Brain Injury Rehabilitation Trust specialises in offering an integrated system of rehabilitation that allows the person to move gradually from a state of high dependence to being as independent as possible. This is done in a staged and organised way.

The Brain Injury Rehabilitation Trust has developed its own system of brain injury rehabilitation over the years known as the neurobehavioural approach to rehabilitation.