Rehabilitation for brain injuries is defined as any specialized support services a patient will require following a brain injury. Sometimes treatment can happen in a hospital or other clinical setting, and some patients will take part in an outpatient rehabilitation program.
These support services can change depending on a person’s needs and the nature of their injury, but the goal of all treatment is to restore as much of a patient’s normal functioning as possible. It may mean learning how to do things differently, if functioning can’t be restored to the level it was before the injury, and otherwise achieving a level of functioning that will allow a patient to return to society.