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Neuroplasticity After Brain Injury: 8 Proven Ways to Support Recovery

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Neuroplasticity after brain injury is the brain’s ability to change connections and reorganize patterns of brain activity. This ability supports all learning from birth until death and is what allows recovery after brain injuries. However, neuroplasticity is not a magic wand or a guarantee of full recovery. It is a biological process that a knowledgeable […]

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Proven Reasons for Depression & Anxiety After Brain Injury

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Depression and anxiety after brain injury can have neurological, psychological, and social causes. Often, several of these factors interact. Damage may disrupt communication among brain regions that regulate mood, motivation, threat detection, stress responses, and emotional control. At the same time, trauma, loss, isolation, pain, and major life changes can prolong stress responses, intensify grief

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Obesity & Metabolic Health After Brain Injury: What You Need to Know

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Weight gain after brain injury is not simply a matter of willpower. The injury can affect metabolic health in ways that contribute to weight gain and obesity. Changes in movement, fatigue, mood, cognition, sleep, medications, and hormones can all affect weight and metabolism after brain injury. Over time, weight gain and obesity can further influence

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Brain Injury Is a Chronic Condition: Here’s What You Need to Know

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In the past, brain injury was viewed as an acute medical event. The common belief was that recovery occurred within a relatively brief window following the injury. After that, healthcare professionals assumed the person had reached a stable recovery endpoint. Research and the lived experiences of many brain injury survivors tell a very different story. Scientists, clinicians, and leading brain injury organizations are increasingly recognizing that brain injury is a chronic condition rather than a single medical event.

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Case Management: How to Make Better Care Plans Using Neuroscience

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A care plan can be carefully designed and clinically sound and still prove ineffective if it doesn’t meet the client where they are. A person’s ability to engage is influenced by the current state of their brain and nervous system, as well as pain, fatigue, stress, trauma, cognitive demands, relationships, environment, and competing pressures. Neuroscience-informed

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This Is How Neuroplasticity Supports Brain Injury Recovery

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Key Takeaways For most of modern medical history, scientists believed that, other than growth periods in childhood, the human brain was fixed by adulthood. If your brain was damaged, the chances for recovery were limited. People who experienced a stroke, brain injury, or other neurological event or condition were often advised that they would improve

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Brain & Spinal Cord Injuries Need Specialized Proven Rehabilitation

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The words “home health” and “in-home rehabilitation” sound like they mean similar things.  But they don’t.  Choosing the wrong service can slow recovery, create gaps in care, and increase the risk of setbacks after discharge. Choosing the right combination can protect progress and support long-term independence.  For physicians, case managers, attorneys, insurers, and hospital leaders, this distinction directly

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Stop Chasing Patient Compliance. Start Building Collaboration

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“Just follow the care plan.” For decades, this has been the mantra in healthcare. The unspoken assumption is that the clinician designs the roadmap, and the patient’s role is simply to comply. But this outdated concept of “patient compliance” is not only paternalistic; it’s ineffective. It’s time for a profound shift in both our terminology

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