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When is the right time for rehab?
March 2021
Neuropsychologist Dr Katherine Dawson writes about what she sees as the cornerstone of rehabilitation by supporting brain injury survivors and their families to establish hope and trust in a future when you don’t yet know what that future holds.
Our brain is made up of 86 billion neurons.
Whilst this may be an overwhelming number to make sense of, imagine a massive network of connecting roads – all transmitting and receiving information, enabling different parts of our brain to communicate with each other.
Injury disrupts some of these networks and dependent on the severity of the injury, small to large areas of the brain can be affected.
We know however, that with challenges and new activities, the brain can rewire and grow new connections and that is the basis of neuro rehab.
When is the right time for rehab?
In terms of providing education regarding injury and establishing good routines, I am a firm believer that something can always be done to promote recovery following injury, at whatever stage of an individual’s rehabilitation journey.
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