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head or brain injury can significantly impair memory, concentration, and other cognitive abilities. The good news: such abilities can be restored. |
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According to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke approximately 1 million head-injured people are treated every year in emergency rooms. Out of them 270,000 experience moderate a to severe brain injury. The Institute estimates the cost of such brain injuries to the US economy at close to 50 billion dollars. A brain injury happens as a result of trauma to the head. This trauma can involve a direct injury of an object penetrating through the skull or when the head hits an object fiercely, causing damage to the brain in one or more areas. Head injuries are caused by accidents, falls or assaults and usually result, depending on the severity of the injury, in concussion, which is a milder injury to more severe one such as hematoma, which happens when internal bleeding occurs. Many individuals experience after a trauma to the head a short- term loss of consciousness. In more severe cases a long-term coma can occur. Head injuries can cause many changes in a person’s physical, mental and emotional well being and memory loss is one of the most prevalent ones. A number of cognitive functions may become impaired. They include poor concentration, working and long term memory impairment, executive functions impairment, especially reasoning, organizing, problem solving, controlling behavior and impulses as well as the ability to make decisions. In more severe cases, individuals experience post traumatic amnesia for various lengths of time. Recovering from a head injury takes time and requires a multi-disciplinary approach, which takes all the aspects of the injury into consideration. The rehabilitation process may involve the help of physiotherapy, occupational therapy, pain management, psychotherapy, and of course cognitive training. In the Advanced Cognitive Enhancement (ACE) clinic, many such individuals were successfully treated. They came for treatment after completing a number of rehabilitation programs and were told that they had accomplished the maximal level of function or very close to it. Read about our success story
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