Brain injuries affect patients who have suffered acquired brain damage, mostly stroke and traumatic brain injury, but also that caused by cerebral anoxia, tumors or other pathologies.
Preventing death is the great achievement of modern medicine. The enormous scientific advances of recent years, the means of care and the titanic effort to save life in Intensive Care Units, Neurology and Neurosurgery Departments, have led to greater survival. We survive longer, but at the expense of disability.
Treatment for brain damage
Once the acute phase of the disease has been overcome, the patient should undergo neurorehabilitative treatment. There are monographic centers that are dedicated to this, treating the person who has suffered the consequences of brain damage as an indivisible whole by the different specialists that make up the neurorehabilitation team (neurologist, rehabilitator, psychiatrist, physiotherapists, neuropsychologists, speech therapists, occupational therapists, …). The aim is to reduce the sequelae as much as possible and achieve the greatest possible autonomy. Brain damage can affect all spheres of life, and can produce motor, cognitive or affective-behavioral deficiencies. Our experience allows us to affirm that early, intensive, coordinated and interdisciplinary treatment improves the long-term prognosis, reducing the severity of the sequelae and disability.
The nervous system has an adaptive capacity to change its structure and functioning. This brain plasticity allows us to act on the neural networks, since everything is connected, and to improve the different functions. But this ability is temporary, hence the importance of starting as soon as possible. In addition to specific therapies with professionals, there are other techniques such as repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, a non-invasive technique that consists of applying pulses of electromagnetic energy on the nerve cells of the brain to activate or modify their functioning, or Bioelectrical Stimulation Equipment for the rehabilitation of the paralyzed hand.