So who are the professionals regularly involved in rehabilitation care? Although this is not an exhaustive list of the types of people who may provide care during rehabilitation, the most common are listed below.
Read more →For some survivors, rehabilitation follows a predictable path from one stage to another with little choice offered along the way. There may be only one doctor specializing in the care you require, or one rehabilitation facility within your region. At times however, choice is involved to find your way in your recovery journey. How do you know what service or individual is going to be the right one for you?
Read more →Some of you may be familiar with the term BIFI, but for those of you who are not it stands for “Brain Injury Family Intervention”. It is a series of interventions for clinicians to use…
Read more →The 2012 Spring Newsletter has hit the presses. Please take a look to find out what we’ve been up to and what we’ve learned since ABI System Navigation of Southeastern Ontario was launched last November 2011.
Read more →What has your experience of brain injury been? As a professional, we tend to provide research about the brain and talk about approaches to rehabilitation. This is important, but what is equally important is hearing what the experience of brain injury is like for those who live it each day…
Read more →It’s been a long time coming, and here we are! I am so pleased to welcome you to the website of ABI System Navigation of Southeastern Ontario. I would like to start by introducing myself, Rachael Henry, the System Navigator…
Read more →Fatigue is a common symptom that lingers following a brain injury. For some it is occasional days where they don’t feel up to snuff, while for others it is an ongoing struggle to attend to the tasks of daily life. Ignoring it doesn’t help, only causing other symptoms to be amplified. Sometimes this will lessen over time, but when it lingers, what should you do?
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