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Rehabilitation for Brain Injuries
The goal of rehabilitation after brain injuries is to help people regain the most independent level of functioning possible. Rehabilitation also involves learning new ways to compensate for abilities that have permanently changed due to brain injury. The rehabilitation process is different for everyone and rehabilitation programs should be individualised, catering to each person's unique needs.
Follow the links below to find information on rehabilitation for brain injuries.
Reviewed October 2011
11 Resources Found
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| Title: | Acquired brain injury |
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| Publisher: | Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia) |
| Description: | Injuries often occur in childhood. Some injuries to the brain may alter a child's thinking and behaviour. Health professionals and educators can help families of a child with an acquired brain injury. |
| Date: | Aug 2010 |
| Title: | Non-pharmacological interventions for perceptual disorders following stroke and other adult-acquired, non-progressive brain injury |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Healthy adult brains are capable of processing multiple and complex information from our senses. We can perceive colour, shape and size, recognise objects and people's faces, estimate location, depth and distance. We can also conduct higher level functi... |
| Date: | Aug 2010 |
| Title: | Music therapy for acquired brain injury |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Acquired brain injury can result in problems with movement, language, sensation, thinking or emotion. Any of these may severely reduce a survivor's quality of life. Many innovative therapy techniques have been developed to help recover lost functions an... |
| Date: | Mar 2010 |
| Title: | Acupuncture for acute management and rehabilitation of traumatic brain injury |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Acupuncture used for the acute treatment, rehabilitation (or both) of traumatic brain injury (TBI) has been studied in China. We conducted a systematic review to evaluate the efficacy and safety of acupuncture for these conditions. Four randomized contr... |
| Date: | Dec 2009 |
| Title: | Rehabilitation Service |
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| Publisher: | Novita Children's Services |
| Description: | Information is provided about the specialist service for providing equipment for Novita clients. |
| Date: | Aug 2009 |
| Title: | Multi-disciplinary rehabilitation for acquired brain injury in adults of working age |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Studies show that multi-disciplinary (MD) rehabilitation is beneficial to patients with brain damage from stroke. Some MD programs are also targeted to working-age adults who have brain injuries through trauma or other causes. These patients are younger... |
| Date: | Apr 2008 |
| Title: | Fitness training for cardiorespiratory conditioning after traumatic brain injury |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Traumatic brain injury is the leading cause of long-term disability in children and young adults. Reduced fitness is a common problem after traumatic brain injury. Clinically, fitness training is used to address this problem. Six studies, incorporating... |
| Date: | Jan 2008 |
| Title: | Acquired brain injury |
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| Publisher: | Raising Children Network (RCN) |
| Description: | A brief overview of acquired brain injury (ABI), and how it affects children. |
| Date: | Sep 2007 |
| Title: | Intervention for dysarthria associated with acquired brain injury in children and adolescents |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Dysarthria is a disorder of speech production that can make it harder for people to be understood by others. Dysarthria is a common and often chronic outcome associated with brain injury suffered in childhood (also known as paediatric acquired brain i... |
| Date: | Feb 2007 |
| Title: | Traumatic brain injury: diagnosis, acute management and rehabilitation |
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| Publisher: | New Zealand Guidelines Group (NZGG) |
| Description: | This guideline provides evidence-based recommendations for best practice in the diagnosis, acute management and rehabilitation of children, young people and adults after traumatic brain injury (TBI). |
| Date: | Jul 2006 |
| Title: | Speech and language therapy for dysarthria due to non-progressive brain damage |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Speech and language therapy treatments for people with dysarthria have not been tested in large clinical trials. Dysarthria is a speech problem which can be caused by a number of brain disorders including conditions such as stroke and head injury. Typic... |
| Date: | Feb 2005 |
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