Neurological Rehabilitation
Pursue your independence through neurological rehabilitation. Injuries or specific conditions can affect your nervous system and make it difficult to perform regular tasks and functions, directly affecting your independence. Neurological rehabilitation can improve your condition and allow you to maintain your ability to keep up with your activities of daily living.
What is Neurological Rehabilitation?
Neurological rehabilitation is an assessment and ongoing treatment for those with movement and functional problems caused by conditions or injuries to the nervous system. Latest research on the brain show us that it has an incredible capacity to change and adapt, following alterations to the body or environment — such as an injury or condition. This ability to adapt is referred to as neuroplasticity. Neurological rehabilitation specialists use this capacity to improve or create new neural pathways through various training and exercises, returning you to, or close to the level of function you had previously.
Benefits of Neurological Rehabilitation
Neurological rehabilitation works to stimulate the nervous system through therapeutic activities and exercises, helping you to learn new ways to move. Treatment plans are unique to your condition or injury, focusing on improving cardiovascular function, strength, movement, balance and overall coordination. We help you optimize your functional ability, as well as advise on ways to modify work and home spaces for safe, efficient and independent living.
If you’ve been diagnosed with a neurological condition or suffered a neurological injury, neuro rehab can help you function more independently.
- Spinal chord injury
- Traumatic brain injury
- Parkinson’s disease
- Alzheimer’s disease
- Huntington’s disease
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
- Multiple sclerosis
- Spinal or brain tumours
- Muscular dystrophy
- Progressive nerve palsies
- Guillian-Barre syndrome
The sooner you begin stroke rehabilitation, the more likely you are to regain lost abilities and skills. It’s common for stroke rehabilitation to start as soon as 24 to 48 hours after your stroke, while you’re in the hospital.
- Physical therapists help you relearn tasks such as transfers, sitting walking and other activities that will help you get back to your functional baseline
- Kinesiologists provide one on one sessions designed to strengthen areas affected by stroke and help solidify tasks such as transfers, sitting, walking and fine motor movements
- Occupational therapists help you lead more independent and active lives. They can help you relearn skills for dressing, bathing and household chores and return to driving. Occupational therapists can also help improve your ability to swallow and your cognitive ability with home and workplace tasks and overall safety.
How It Can Help
If your injury or condition is making your daily movement painful, frustrating or unsafe, you may eventually resort to completely refraining from these activities. However, this may not only decrease your quality of life but also begin weakening your muscles, making it even harder to move around normally.
Neurological rehabilitation is an option that will help you move past your current limitations and discover new ways of doing things for a more independent lifestyle. FisioMed’s in-home rehabilitation team is experienced when it comes to helping patients regain limb movement and optimize functional abilities.
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