The brain, multimovement therapy, neuroscience, pedagogy and education: part 4
A number of significant contributors to John’s recovery included the inherent neural repair processes and neurophysiological renewal at the very moment that the brain damage (for detail see Nudo, 2013) occurred in August 1991. These natural internal processes were added to by the initial medical emergency intervention. This was then followed by all of the subsequent medical and rehabilitative interventions over the following 2 years that included the initial four-week emergency hospital stay in Sydney, which was then followed by the three different hospital stays in Melbourne that also included medically directed physiotherapy. And then following John’s release to home care with Glenys, this then also included hydrotherapy and physiotherapy. The end result of all of this, after nearly two-and-a-half years, was that by early December 1993, John’s severely incapacitated condition continued to remain in place. However...
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