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1The Rehabilitation Team
- Rehabilitation is a continuous process where a
team of doctors, nurses, therapists and various
other medical professionals is formed to help the
patient recover from his present state of illness
to a normal state of health.
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2- The rehabilitation team is formed based on the
illness of the patient. For example the doctors,
nurses and therapists in a drug rehabilitation
team will be different from those in an accident
rehabilitation team. Each member of the team
with his/her individual expertise has a different
approach in healing the patient.
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3- Various needs of the client decides which
therapist will be a part of the rehabilitation
team. Some of these needs are the clients
illness, duration of illness, severity of the
same, financial capability of the client and his
insurance coverage. Usually a rehabilitation team
comprises of the following members
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4Physiatrist
- The Physiatrist is the leader of the
rehabilitation team. He assesses the patient
carefully and monitors the patients progress. He
decides what all medical services the patient
needs and then designs the program as per the
patients need. He will design a patient oriented
treatment program based on which the other
members of the team will be decided. His
specialization is physical medicine and
rehabilitation.
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5Neuropsychologist
- Often after a serious illness or brain damage, a
patient may not able to behave or think as he use
to before the accident. Severe brain damage may
be the cause for this. So a Neuropsychologist
monitors these changes and then designs such
programs that will help the patient recover
quickly. A Neuropsychologist will also educate
the family members of the patient to accept this
change in the patient and ways to deal with it.
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6Physical Therapist
- After a traumatic brain injury a person may
suffer from musculoskeletal or neuromuscular
issues. This injury affects his daily activities.
The work of a physical rehabilitation therapist
is to work on improving this problem of the
patient. He will focus on the development of
posture, strength, physical independence, quality
movement, balance coordination and other sensory
motor activities.
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7Nurses
- Nurses who deal with rehabilitation patients are
trained to take care of the everyday need of the
patients. Often after severe brain or physical
injury a person may find it difficult to take
care of oneself, so these nurses are trained to
take care of patients.
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8Speech/Language Pathologist
- A person suffering from any sort of brain injury
may face difficulty in talking clearly.
Therefore, it becomes difficult for the family
members to understand what the patient is trying
to say. Sometimes, the patient may also feel
frustrated when he is not able to communicate
properly. In such cases, a speech therapist helps
the patient by checking his condition and then
designing a specific program of exercises and
therapies that would help him communicate with
the society.
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9Occupational Therapist
- The work of an occupational therapist is to make
a patient learn advanced independence skills that
will help him in various ways in his personal
life. The patient will be taught cooking,
laundering, shopping and banking by an
occupational therapist.
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10Recreational Therapist
- The job of a recreational therapist is to make a
patient indulge in all those activities that the
patient enjoys. He brings a positive attitude in
a patient by making the latter realize that life
can be fun and enjoyable.
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11Counselor
- After any kind of a traumatic incident, be it
accident or illness a patient goes through
depression and other negative feelings. It is
very important that a rehab counselor counsels
the patient and adds positive attitude in him.
This is important as healthy mind will lead to a
faster healing.
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12- These medical experts form a rehabilitation team
and help the patient in various ways to get back
to a normal life.
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