What brain injuries are treated with physical rehabilitation?

What brain injuries are treated with physical rehabilitation?

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?

The most common brain injury that a physiatrist would be involved with would be a stroke, somebody that has had a blood clot that has traveled through their circulation to their brain and has cut off the supply of oxygen to one area of their brain. That will lead to significant physical problems as well as cognitive problems. This is very common also in brain tumors, folks that have had tumors and a surgeon has removed the tumor from their brain, often they are left with some sort of a deficit in their physical abilities or in their cognitive abilities and a physiatrist would be intimately involved in restoring that function if possible. Aneurisms are another brain injury that Physiatrist could be involved with if you had a blood vessel that burst inside your brain, the presence of the blood in the brain tissue will injure that tissue and cause some deficits in physical abilities or concentration abilities and this is another type of brain injury that a physiatrist could help you with restoring your functioning and quality of life.