How can physical rehabilitation help me recover from a brain injury?

How can physical rehabilitation help me recover from a brain injury?

Jerry Pryde, MD, MPH, CIME (Clinical Chief, Department of Rehabilitation, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center) gives expert video advice on: What brain injuries are treated with physical rehabilitation?; How can physical rehabilitation help me recover from a brain injury?

If you've had a brain injury from something such as a stroke, a tumour, an aneurysm, or even a traumatic brain injury from a car accident, a physiatrist, or a physical medicine and rehabilitation medical doctor would evaluate your specific limitations from the brain injury. Are you having physical limitations? Are you having visual limitations or limitations in swallowing, concentration, or memory? They would design a therapy programme that may involve a physical therapist, a speech therapist, a neuropsychologist, or an occupational therapist. They would design a programme to treat each of those individual limitations and help you restore functioning, or teach you compensatory techniques if they realize that you're not going to walk in the same way that you walked before. They would, with the therapist's help, teach you a new way in which you could walk or a new way in which you could be mobile and live your life.