Early access to neurorehabilitation can have a significant impact on the life of a person with a brain or spinal injury.
Rehabilitation is a treatment or treatments designed to facilitate the process of recovery from injury, illness, or disease to as normal a condition as possible. This will often involve a range of activities undertaken to restore some or all of the patient's physical, sensory, and mental capabilities that were lost due to injury, illness, or disease with the support of various professionals. The rehabilitation process will typically involve a number of specialist professionals who work in different way with a client such as physiotherapists, occupational therapists, neuropsychologists, speech and language therapists and specialist nurses
Neurological rehabilitation refers to rehabilitation provided to people with neurological conditions such as acquired brain injury and long term neurological conditions. This is provided by the multidisciplinary team and is overseen by an appropriately qualified and experienced medical consultant.
There is increasing recognition that access to specialist neurological rehabilitation provides better outcomes for people with a range of neurological conditions. Research has identified the benefits of specialist rehabilitation at various stages of the individual’s pathway, from acute and specialist inpatient rehabilitation to community based and vocational rehabilitation programmes. Early access to neurological rehabilitation can have a substantial impact on the life of a person with an acquired brain or spinal injury or other long term neurological condition.
