Rehabilitation after traumatic brain injury
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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With a persistent neurologic deficit, the patient needs rehabilitation. In the US there are support groups after traumatic brain injury that can help families of such patients.
The fact of presence and duration of coma serve as powerful prognostic factors for the need for rehabilitation. Patients who have been in coma for more than 24 hours have expressed persistent neurological consequences in 50% of cases, and 2-6% remain in the vegetative state for 6 months or more. Patients who survived primary hospitalization often require a long period of rehabilitation, especially in the cognitive and emotional spheres of activity.
Rehabilitation is most fully realized through the so-called command principle, i.e. In a group. Recovery includes mechanotherapy, occupational therapy, speech training, cognitive process training, which allows for further social and emotional adaptation of the patient.
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