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Stroke (cerebrovascular accident, or CVA) rehabilitation
Stroke (cerebrovascular accident, or CVA) rehabilitation
Feuerstein
Institute’s cognitive rehabilitation department, among other
things, is engaged in the rehabilitation of people who suffered a
CVA. When a CVA or a stoke takes place, it creates a disconnection of
the brain blood supply, as the result of a sudden blockage that
prevents the blood from flowing freely.
Changing
our viewpoint
A
stroke generally occurs suddenly, completely changing the patients’
life due to injury of their cognitive abilities, immediately
affecting their functioning levels. The injury generally has a
significant effect over the patients’ quality of life, and the
quality of life of the people around them.
CVAs
can be divided into two categories:
” Ischemic stroke – caused as a result of a blockage in the artery that supplies blood to the brain, by a blood clot. This is the type of CVA leading to most injuries. “
Hemorrhagic
stroke – caused as a result
of a leak in the brain’s blood vessels, mostly as a result of
untreated high blood pressure, or as a result of damage to the wall
of the blood vessel. This type is far rarer, and leads to a smaller
percentage of injuries.
What
is the purpose of our treatment?
Following
medical care, as well as rehabilitative treatments, focusing on
physical abilities, Feuerstein Institute comes in, in order to
improve the patients’ cognitive abilities.
At
Feuerstein Institute’s cognitive rehabilitation department, we help
our patients improve their cognitive, linguistic, and functional
abilities, and assist them in becoming integrated in occupations
suitable to their new abilities, in accordance with each and every
patient’s wishes. Following brain injuries, functional abilities
change. We assess our patients’ existing abilities, and the
challenges causes by their injuries, in attempt to find the right
learning tools to help our patients make progress.
How
do we do it?
The
rehabilitation process begins by assessing and estimating the
patients’ abilities, and recognizing the areas damaged by the
injury, according to the patients’ and their families’ reports.
Assessment is performed using the LPAD method (a type of assessment
uniquely developed by Feuerstein Institute, according to the
Feuerstein method) intended to comprehensively assess the capacities
of each of our patients, and to construct the best rehabilitation
plan for them, for their purposes, and for their potential.
Our
treatment method is comprehensive and unique:
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Our
treatment includes the instrumental enrichment program, developed by
the Institution, with the purpose of improving the patients’
cognitive abilities -
We
combine treatments from various fields, which assist in the
enhancement of our patients’ various abilities, such as:
occupational therapy, speech therapy, rehabilitative teaching, and
neuropsychology -
We
practice improving all various functional abilities in order to
allow for comprehensive rehabilitative work, at the end of which,
our patients reach their maximum functioning levels, allowing them
to become integrated in occupational work suitable to their
abilities.
At Feuerstein Institute, we believe that
anyone can be rehabilitated from CVAs, and go back to living a full
and active life.
You
are invited to join us on a journey that will give your loved ones
back their joy and the ability to navigate the course of their lives.