Early Supported Discharge for Neurorehabilitation Following Acquired Brain Injury

Community Integration for After Acquired Brain Injury: A Literature Review

Objectives: This paper reviews the current literature on acquired brain injury (ABI) with a focus on ABI burden, importance of community integration, and community integration definitions suggested by the literature. Methods: Literature review Results: Acquired brain injury (ABI) is referred to a diverse range of disabilities resulted of injury in different parts of the brain. People with AB...

Rehabilitation following acquired brain injury: concise guidance.

The national clinical guidelines for Rehabilitation following acquired brain injury were developed by a multidisciplinary working party convened by the British Society of Rehabilitation Medicine, and are published in collaboration with the Royal College of Physicians (2003). They have been produced to complement the National Institute of Clinical Excellence head injury guidelines, and to addres...

Socio-emotional behaviour following acquired brain injury

Skill reacquisition after acquired brain injury: a holistic habit retraining model of neurorehabilitation.

Persistent cognitive, emotional and behavioral dysfunction following brain injury present formidable challenges in the area of neurorehabilitation. This paper reviews a model and practical methodology for community based neurorehabilitation based upon: 1. Evidence from the "automatic learning" and "errorless learning" literature for skills relearning after brain injury; 2. A widely applicable t...

Use of antidepressant medication following acquired brain injury: concise guidance.

Depression is increasingly recognised as a common sequel to acquired brain injury and the use of antidepressant medication in this context has increased markedly over recent years. However, these drugs are not without side effects--some of them serious--and they should not be used without proper evaluation and monitoring. This set of concise guidance was developed jointly by the British Society...