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Rehab Programs After Brain Injury

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SOURCES: 2008 Medical Reference from Medstar Television. Rebecca Askew, MPT, Physical Therapist, Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas, Encinitas, CA.

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Brittney Olberding (OLE ber ding) always wanted to work in medicine…but she didn't expect to be the patient.

Brittney Olberding:

I was a 4th year nursing student when this happened, so I don't have a bachelor's now. I was really, really close to getting my bachelor's so I need to go back to school soon, someday.

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Brittney suffered a near-fatal brain injury in a car crash, and has been in rehab ever since.

Brittney Olberding:

I had to learn how to walk, how to read, how to eat, how to breathe, how to, like, clean, how to live, how to, everything.

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To rebuild her skills, Brittney spends up to 6-hours a day at Scripps Memorial Hospital's brain injury rehab program. It's intensive therapy that helps return patients to daily life.

Rebecca Askew, M.P.T.:

We treat patients one-on-one, whether it be with P.T., O.T., or speech, and then we also do integrated approaches where we kinda work together.

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Since Brittney wants to return to school, she works on multi-tasking drills, like sorting cards and spelling un-related words.

Therapist :

R-O-O-M. Room.

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She's making strides when it comes to walking… and even running.

Rebecca Askew, M.P.T.:

We often start from a wheelchair level and just help people to the point where you've seen with Brittney, that now she's running.

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While Brittney still has work ahead of her, she's determined to move forward.

Brittney Olberding :

I still have lot I'm going to do to accept my limitations, but just, it takes awhile.

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Time she will use creating a new path in life. For WebMD, I'm Sandee Lamotte.

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