Archive for August 2011
Country’s Best Rehab Centers
There are many options today when it comes to health and rehabilitation centers in the United States. We thank you, modern technology and high quality choice for consumers, institutions such as hospitals and other health care institutions have no choice as to their services, equipment and methods. It’s been a basic requirement for hospitals to facilities, the underlying disease and frequent injuries could meet increasingly complex and difficult to treat. With all the opportunities before us, the question of who or what institution is the best of the best?
According to surveys conducted by USNews.com, hospitals ranked the following as the Top 5 in the list of doctors in the country.
TOP 1
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC) – Founded in 1954, is dedicated to excellence and offers the highest quality of care, research and patient education. The people around the world decide treated in RIC for its expertise in treating complex diseases such as cerebral palsy, spinal cord injuries, stroke and traumatic or TCC. CIR is the home of Northwestern University Medical School of Feignberg Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and one of the most important and prestigious residence operates in psychiatry in the United States.
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Virtual Rehabilitation and Brain Injury
We all know that the human brain, and assume that it works properly until this function because of catastrophic disease, stroke, brain tumor, head injury, multiple sclerosis or other damage neuronal function is altered brain disease.
The most common form of brain injury is a stroke. Although we attribute the race of the elderly, it can happen to anyone, if a sudden loss of blood supply to the brain. Many studies have been conducted to try to repair the damage caused by various types of brain damage.
The damage is usually on the central nervous system, eye movements, muscle weakness of the face, numbness and tingling in different areas of the body, reduces sensations, impaired voluntary movement, a change of vision, coordination and balance, difficulty walking or unable to go at all, and the involvement of the respiratory tract. Some patients have all or some of these symptoms. Read the rest of this entry »
Senator Udall Calls for Cognitive Rehabilitation Therapy for Soldiers
Senator Mark Udall of Colorado, which also calls for co-chair of the Task Force Brain Injury Congress, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, the soldiers with traumatic brain injury offer with cognitive rehabilitation. Udall has recently signed a bipartisan letter calling Gates provide treatment for victims of TBI and found that cognitive rehabilitation has been shown that an effective treatment option for patients with traumatic brain injuries are.
“With so many of our service members home with traumatic brain injuries, both serious and lighter cases, we should ensure that they are with the broad and consistent access to cognitive therapy. Those who sacrificed for our freedom deserve the best care for injuries they suffered visible – and for the invisible wounds, “said Udall, who is also a member of the Senate Armed Services and Intelligence committees.
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