Rehabilitation outcome in traumatic and non traumatic brain injury

In the February edition of Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine http://bit.ly/ig2zcW Dr. Colantonio and his team from the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute analyze data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information’s National Rehabilitation Reporting System on brain injuries, and inpatient rehabilitation treatment outcome. His group found that approximately half of acquired brain injury patients receiving inpatient rehabilitation had non-traumatic causes of brain injury. Traumatic brain injury patients were more likely to be younger, male, from rural areas, and to make greater gains in rehabilitation. Differences were found in the types and numbers of comorbidities. However, patients from these 2 groups had similar lengths of rehabilitation stay.
The HandTutor, ArmTutor and LegTutor system offer the possibility to do intensive massed and motivated exercise practice and are used in both traumatic and non traumatic brain injury patients.