Acquired Brain Injury (ABI)

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Introduction

Client Group: Acquired Brain Injury (ABI), focus on Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) clients.

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A brain injury is a life-altering event that affects virtually every area of a person’s life. Before we can begin to understand the causes, characteristics and rehabilitation process we firstly need to know a little on the structure and function of the brain.
Structure and Function of the Human Brain
(Picture of brain- p227 Hole’s essentials.)
It's important to understand the complexity of the human brain. The human brain weighs only three pounds but is estimated to have about 100 billion nerve cells that communicate with one another and other parts of the nervous system. These nerve cells are arranged in a pattern to control thoughts, movement, emotion, behaviour and sensation. The brain can be divided into two halves that differ in function. These are the cerebral hemispheres, the right half controls nonverbal functions and the left hemisphere controls verbal functions. The two sections work closely together to control the body. A unique feature of the brain is that the left hemisphere controls the right side of the body and vice versa. Therefore we can pinpoint the damaged area in the brain from specific location of the injury.
What is an Acquired Brain Injury?
The Medical Disability Society Working Party Report on the Management of Traumatic Brain Injury (February 1988) defines Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) as 'Brain injury caused by trauma to the head (including the effects upon the brain of other possible complications of injury, notably hypoxemia and hypotension, and intracerebral haematoma)', (Cited in Headway, 2004). meaning a patient with mild traumatic brain injury is a person who has had a traumatically induced physiological disruption of brain function. The sequelae of traumatic brain injury (TBI) will vary in the type and severity depending upon the location, type and extent of the injury (Fazio and Fralish 1988). A TBI can be seen as a chain of events beginning with the ‘first injury’ which occurs in the

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Acquired Brain Injury,   ABI,   Brain Injury,   Brain,   Acquired Brain