Brain Injury Rehabilitation Services

RIC treats patients with the following types of brain injury:

• Anoxic brain injury
• Mild traumatic brain injury
• Moderate traumatic brain injury
• Severe traumatic brain injury
• Closed head injuries
• Concussions
• Brain tumor
• Disease entities (such as encephalitis)
• Metabolic disorders that lead to brain injury

RIC's Unique Approach to Brain Injury Rehabilitation

Restoring physical, intellectual communicative, psychosocial and vocational skills is the focus of RIC's brain injury rehabilitation program. The therapy format is structured to provide appropriate stimulation and to increase attention span. RIC's secure inpatient unit is specially designed to promote progress and offer a safe, controlled environment for the special needs of brain injury patients. In addition to inpatient care, patients also have access to day rehabilitation and outpatient centers as their therapy progresses

• The Therapeutic Day - This program provides structured, graded activities to facilitate progress toward rehabilitation goals. Each program is customized to meet the specific needs of the patient and provides patients and families with a template that can be revised and carried over to the next setting at discharge. Examples of therapeutic day program activities include assignments from therapists, independent exercises, leisure activities and rest breaks.
• Physical and occupational therapists and speech language pathologists work individually and together to help each patient address the unique effects of a brain injury.
• RIC's Circle of Caring program supports family members of individuals with brain injury through the rehabilitation process and beyond.

RIC’s specialized services complement the core team and help each individual realize their full potential:

• Animal assisted therapy

• Assistive technology

• Body weight supported treadmill training 

• Community outings

• Constraint induced movement therapy

• Family peer visitors

• Health and Fitness Center

• LIFE Center (opens in a new window)

• Neuropsychology

• Opportunity to participate in brain injury research

• Optometry Services 

• Patient Peer Visitors 

• Peer counseling and support groups

• Prosthetics & Orthotics Clinical Center

• Robot-Assisted Therapy using the Lokomat®

• Skill training for job re-entry, such as resume writing and interviewing skills

• Spasticity/hypertonia management

• Technology Center

• Therapeutic Recreation

• Video Fluoroscopy (on-site swallow studies)

• Vocational Rehabilitation

• Wheelchair Seating and Positioning

• Women with Disabilities Center 

Returning to the community, family and everyday life

RIC's brain injury medicine and rehabilitation program promotes improved memory and cognitive skills as well as the patient's ability to transfer both physical and intellectual skills from the hospital setting to real life. RIC patients participate in community re-entry groups to strengthen daily living and social interaction skills while initiating a healthy lifestyle through group leisure activities.