Neurorehabilitation uses occupational therapy and physical therapy with patients’ to reinstate the skills and attitudes of persons affected by stroke, or suffering from a disorder of the central motor system and more. The aim is to get their skills to work at the highest level so that the patient can rebuild self-esteem and a positive approach towards life.

Neurorehabilitation therapies teach or train the patients to improve and recover their communication and mobility abilities, along with the other aspects of their daily lives. In the treatment, process neurorehabilitation focuses on the psychological, creative, and nutritional elements of the individual’s recovery.

Occupational therapists assess how the neurological conditions impact the patients’ abilities and provide solutions to help the patients to complete day-to-day activities like:

>Self-care that covers dressing, washing, and eating
>Leisure including socializing and hobbies

Who can be benefited by neurorehabilitation?

First of all, it is not only beneficial for adults but also for children who have unfortunately experienced injury or complex diseases that affect the nervous system can get benefit from comprehensive neurorehabilitation program to improve their long term potential.

It includes children with the following conditions:

>Traumatic and acquired brain injury
>Spinal cord injury
>Infections of the brain, such as encephalitis
>Stroke
>Seizure disorder
>Other problems that concern the brain or central motor system

Neurorehabilitation and Movement

One of the best improvements neurorehabilitation can bring is in movement. In teaching how to move a part of the body affected by any of the conditions mentioned above, for example, the plasticity of brain changes. Activity takes advantage of neuroplastic changes and enhances them to help in the recovery of the patient. It decreases, increases, recruitment of additional brain regions, and shifts in brain activation can facilitate behavioral improvement during occupational therapy.

Leaning skills is of vital importance for functional reorganization than simply repeating movements. Practice is an integral part of the therapy but must be tailored and spaced out for patients to have a great result in each of the cases. Varied practice enables the patients to add to their skills for the long term and better adapt the skills in their daily life activities.

One of the major components of a successful neurorehabilitation therapy program is supporting a child transfer newly learned activities from the therapy room to daily life. The specialist therapists help your child transfer the progress made by the therapy to every part of his or her life.

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