Brain Injury
Acquired Brain Injury is a general term that covers all brain damage occurring after birth. In the context of rehabilitation, Aquired Brain Injury typically refers to injuries that cause both physical and cognitive or behavioral disabilities. Patients on the ABI Unit typically have some physical disabilities, but their newly acquired cognitive or behavioral brain processes are a real impediment to their being discharged to their homes.
The Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) Unit at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, NC, contains 12 dedicated beds and provides a therapeutic environment for persons age 13 and older with brain injuries, as they seek to put their lives back together. As part of our general rehab CARF accreditation, this unit offers a secure environment that allows brain injury patients to move about freely.
The Effects of Brain Injury
Some brain injury patients suffer prolonged or non-reversible brain damage. This can occur as a result of bleeding inside the brain or forces that damage the brain directly. These more serious brain injuries may cause:
- Changes in personality, emotions, or mental abilities
- Speech and language problems
- Loss of sensation, hearing, vision, taste, or smell
- Seizures
- Paralysis
- Coma
Typical brain injury patients seen in the ABI unit include those recovering from both traumatic and non-traumatic acquired brain injury including motor vehicle accidents, brain tumors, strokes and other acquired brain injury.
Learn more about brain injury at the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center website.
Brain Injury
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