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[Outcome after an intensive, holistic and multidisciplinary rehabilitation program after traumatic brain injury.
J León Carrión1, F Machuca Murga, M Murga Sierra
1Lab.Neuropsicología Cognitiva Humana.; Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, 41005, España. jleon@psicoexp.us.es
Introduction:
This paper was designed to evaluate the integral rehabilitation treatments for patients with traumatic brain injury; data about efficiency of the C.RE.CER. intensive, holistic and multidisciplinary rehabilitation program is given.
Patients And Methods:
The study was done keeping in mind not only the clinical aspects of rehabilitation, but also setting it within the judicial realm in which a great number of brain injury cases are found, mainly when caused by traffic accidents. A sample of 10 severe traumatic brain injury patients was studied, aged between 19 and 39. All the patients were assessed at the beginning and the end of the treatment, using a neuropsychological test battery, meanwhile were treated with the C.RE.CER. intensive, holistic and multidisciplinary rehabilitation program.
Results And Conclusions:
The results show a high efficiency of treatments in the majority of the patients, with reductions of more than 70% in emotional deficits and more than 60% in the global recovery of the patients that carried out the programs. This paper also shows some limitations of the criteria for compensation in Spanish legislation.