08/26/2020
Traumatic Brain Injury
(TBI)
An accident that involves a head injury. This may include, learning all skill sets you would normally know after infancy, walking talking, communication.. this can get damaged. And there are ways around, retraining a brain, to use different areas that are still vital. As in reproducing speech. As in your first steps. By creating a new path, to which the motion, (walking) can travel to send the response to a yet healthy area of the brain. Or in speech, also training a healthy area, over a damaged speech area.
Depending on each clients individual needs. There area variety of ways to have the client become functional, once again, semifunctional, where some normal functions return, or nonfunctional, the client, will and can learn certain things over, but still may need, assistance in their daily livings skills.
Since our Brains are mapped a little differently, because of being individuals, the path an action takes, is different individually. It's not completely the same for all people. Generally yes, but not specifically.
There are many ways and exercises to start. And there is always hope. That a pathway can develope.
I have intentionally taken clients no one else wanted for various reasons. I never had a client I regretted that I took.
The only thing while, dealing with a persons brain and a new pathway, it varies in time length, so can be rather quick, some can be months, others, years, and still, others may show little change. Or very tiny changes. However, it is never nothing. Even if a client has no real change, we still work with them everyday, still give the same long term care they require. But we still do the exercises in Hope's that pathway will continue to eventually strengthen to take over on it's own. There are proven techniques. But most are a trial n error scenario. Until we find the first glimmer to a new pathway. So much of it is based upon
hope. Backed with science.
If a client does not produce a new pathway. I'm confident in their care.
God bless
