Stroke and Traumatic Brain Injury Rehabilitation

The goal of stroke rehabilitation is to help you relearn skills you lost when a stroke affected part of your brain. Stroke rehabilitation can help you regain independence and improve your quality of life. The severity of stroke complications and each person's ability to recover vary widely.

Head trauma varies in severity and the degree of symptoms following injury are different for every person and every accident. Each person's recovery journey is an individual experience. 

Typical symptoms can include:

• Light Sensitivity

• Auditory Sensitivity

• Headaches

• Dizziness

• Fatigue

• Decreased Mental Clarity

• Impaired Body Awareness

• Clumsiness

• Memory Deficits

• Anxiety

• Depression

• Impaired Expressive (talking) and Receptive (understanding) Language.

One of the most important parts of supporting neurological healing following a head injury is supporting the return of "safety" within the nervous system. This is done by engaging the brain stem where the survival reflexes are located. Often during a traumatic event these survival reflexes are activated to survive the event and do not return to their un-activated state following the injury. This can be due to prolonged stress following the accident, toxins and/or poor integration before the event.