Life After Brain Injury

This is the first book of its kind to include the personal accounts of people who have survived injury to the brain, along with professional therapists'' reports of their progress through rehabilitation. The paintings and stories of survivors combine with experts'' discussions of the theory and practice of brain injury rehabilitation to illustrate the ups and downs that survivors encounter in their journey from pre-injury status to insult and post-injury rehabilitation.

Wilson, Winegardner and Ashworth''s focus on the survivors'' perspective shows how rehabilitation is an interactive process between people with brain injury, health care staff, and others, and gives the survivors the chance to tell their own stories of life before their injury, the nature of the insult, their early treatment, and subsequent rehabilitation.

Presenting practical approaches to help survivors of brain injury achieve functionally relevant and meaningful goals, Life After Brain Inju