Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Repairing the Injured Brain Why Proper Rehabilitation Is Essential to Recovering Function

A great article explaining what you need to know  about your challenges to recovery. Your doctor should have given you this information.
From the Dana Foundation.
http://dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=39258
A couple of lines from it. Read it all.
Since most people with brain injury live a nearly normal life span (the overall average is seven years decreased life expectancy).
Amphetamine administration in concert with therapy may enhance and accelerate the rate and extent of recovery of motor function.
Therapies that are conducted one or two times a week are unlikely to be of sufficient dose to facilitate neurological re-modeling. It has been shown that in order for neurons to learn a specific motor function, that motor function must be repeated hundreds of times.
Treatment of people with acquired brain injury is highly specialized and poorly understood by practitioners in the general medical and allied health fields. 

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