Abstract

Principle of Neurorehabilitation

Author(s): Arnold S

Neurorehabilitation is a complex medical process which aims to aid recovery from a nervous system injury, and to minimize and/or compensate for any functional alterations resulting from it. The patient's and their families' skills, lives, and projects are all broken when they suffer a significant impairment, such as one caused by a major  spinal injury or brain damage. To cope with this circumstance, the individual and their family must develop and negotiate a "modern way of living," both with their altered bodies and as a transformed individual within their larger group