Rehabilitation Programs

Day Neuro Rehabilitation Program
Baylor's Day Neuro Rehabilitation Program provides outpatient therapeutic activities for brain injury patients for approximately five to six hours, Monday through Friday. This program helps you improve in cognitive, communication, physical and social functions to return to a more independent and satisfying community life. You are individually evaluated to determine what difficulties you are experiencing, what activities are most important to you and what therapy activities are most appropriate to help address these needs.

A multidisciplinary team of clinicians including occupational, physical and speech therapists, therapeutic recreation therapists and neuropsychology/psychology professionals work with you and your family to develop treatment plans. Medical management by a physiatrist is available and social work is provided to help your family access community services if needed.

The family/caregiver is also given activities to incorporate in the home setting to encourage the patient's progress.

Real Life Rehabilitation Program
From the day you leave inpatient treatment, therapists with Baylor's Real Life Rehabilitation Program can begin to work with you and your family in your home on an outpatient basis to continue restorative skill building and adaptation techniques. The first hospital-based program of its kind on the nation, the Real Life Rehab team is made up of specially trained physical therapists, occupational therapists and speech therapists who check accessibility and safety within the home and community settings, provide family training, ongoing equipment adjustments and needs, and offer assistance with continuing techniques for skill improvement and strengthening. They also establish a reasonable daily activity routine, preparing you and your family for the next stage of rehabilitation whether it is a facility-based day treatment program or individual therapies in an outpatient clinic.

If you are able to return home, the team will continue to work with you to build skills that either help you evolve as independently as possible or work to a point where you will be able to take advantage of one of the other specialty intervention programs.

The Real Life Rehab team can also assist when a certain level of skill development has been achieved in traditional outpatient treatment programs and you, your family and the team are ready to make sure those skills are being demonstrated outside of the clinic. The Real Life Rehab team will work with you and your family at home and in the community until you are competent in critical skills necessary to continue improvement.

Knowing that additional adjustment or adaptation issues emerge when you leave the hospital, the Real Life Rehab team also stays in close contact with the rehabilitation psychologist and neuropsychologist to reinforce positive communication approaches and alert these medical professionals to any behaviors that could impact your overall well being.

When you have completed treatment in a specialty outpatient program and accomplished your designated outcome, a short transition intervention can be set up to make sure those skills translate into daily functional success.