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After you are referred by your doctor and thoroughly evaluated, a team of specialists will help set treatment goals for recovery. This team can be made up of many skilled professionals, including the neurologist/neurosurgeon, an occupational therapist, a physical therapist, and a speech/language therapist.

Disorders and Injuries

Many conditions of the nervous system may be helped by physical medicine and rehabilitation. These include, but are not limited to:

• Vascular disorders: Stroke, transient ischemic attack, subarachnoid hemorrhage
• Infections: Meningitis, encephalitis, polio
• Structural, traumatic, or neuromuscular disorders: Brain, head, or spinal cord injury; brain or spinal cord tumors; peripheral neuropathy; muscular dystrophy; myasthenia gravis; Guillain-Barré syndrome
• Functional disorders: Seizure disorder, dizziness, neuralgia
• Degenerative disorders: Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Huntington's chorea, Alzheimer's disease

Program Components

A typical neurological rehabilitation program may include the following:

• Assistance with activities of daily living
• Speech therapy
• Activities to improve control and muscle balance
• An exercise program
• Gait and balance retraining
• Activities to improve cognitive impairments
• Education regarding the disease and disease process
• Goal-setting involving both you and family members

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